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Chris -- 2018-04-11
He had to do some serious finangling to get it to work.
This one has been difficult to document—I didn’t find it on google. My son uses it, but on purpose (as do I on occasion). He thinks he got it from another person who used it in error (whether or not a standard one). If anybody really uses it as standard it has all the elements for a good eggcorn: you are making the fine=delicate adjustments to work the angles to get what you want. (Or perhaps you are trying delicately to lure difficult-to-catch fish?)
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Fineagle is relatively common (though still rare compared to finagle ), and at least probably sometimes involves perceiving fine as a component of finagle . (It may also correspond to a pronunciation fin-eagle instead of fine-agle.) E.g.
these manipulative plants fineagle their way into my consciousness
So the creative part was to fineagle the word Ghostbusters into the song. Richard: When you first saw the film, did you think that 25 years …
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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I’m wondering whether I misunderstood something in your post—I had no problem documenting “to finangle”:
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All I can figure is I must have only looked for fineangle—what you get for posting when you’re in a hurry. I thought I had checked the finangles!
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Yes, even spelt finangle it could be the full eggcorn, and at least probably has the working of the angles part in it.
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2009-05-28 16:10:07)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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Finangle strikes me as an esculator.
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