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Chris -- 2025-05-10
On a newscaste:
Voting for Trump is like cutting off your nose despite your face.
An internet search suggests it is standard or at least acceptable for some. But what does it mean?
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(1) Your face is already ugly enough. Might as well cut off your nose and make it worse.
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(2) Your face actually looks pretty good, but in spite of that you are fixing to cut your nose off.
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If either analysis is active in people’s minds and the phrase is the standard one for them, it’s an eggcorn.
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The possibility of a machine speech-recognition problem should not be discounted.
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(“Newscaste” is also documented fwiw. Ought to mean the high-falutin’ social stratum of pundits, or something of the sort.)
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2024-07-10 07:52:57)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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