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Chris -- 2018-04-11
My wife came up with a good one years ago when she was exasperated with me. “Do you always have to be so skeptimistic?” she asked.
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It’s a good one—the question is a good what? I’d analyze it as a blend between skeptical and optimistic/pessimistic and maybe some other things. You (or perhaps your wife?) would know better than we could if she meant by it something like “skeptical, habitually taking a skeptical outlook†or something else. In any case, I don’t see how it could be an eggcorn: what would be the near-homophonous “acorn†word or phrase she was substituting this for?
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A similar one I’ve collected: “the prime minister is peptomistic about the chances that a deal can be reached.â€
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Again, as I say, it is a great example of its kind, and it is a fun kind. Just not an eggcorn.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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