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Chris -- 2018-04-11
One of my siblings recommended this poem, which I expect you all will appreciate.
“To Be Pacific”, by Brian Bilston.
(Google it and you’ll find it. It may be as recent as September 9th of this year (2024).)
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It incorporates a couple dozen malapropisms in standard phrases, which (the malapropisms) are themselves standard for many people, e.g. “To be pacific < to be specific.” Several are pretty clearly eggcorns, some of them discussed on this site (if I remember—didn’t check). Among them would be, “when all’s set and done,” “I just want a little piece of quiet,” “it takes two to tangle,” “curl up in the feeble position,” and soon and so forth.
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Anyway, endjoy.
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2024-09-20 20:34:49)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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