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Chris -- 2018-04-11
A juncture requiring a pump could be one way of describing a puncture, and it’s unusual to see the solution nestling so neatly within the problem:
up for sale are these classic retro bikes in need of some tlc complete bikes needs tyres pumped up or pumptures repair hence £35 enfield coventry …
bristol.gumtree.com/bristol/17/40491517.html – Cached
... he tends to talk about having a pumpture, and I can see where he’s coming from, for there is a definite relationship between a pump and a flat wheel. ...
growingseasons.blogspot.com/2008_05_01_archive.html – Cached
then so suey…the motor i drive had a pumpture.. !@#$%^&* end up cant go…celebrate at the high way knn. end up upsetting alot people i think..once in a
... PSHIFT TRANS DRIVE AND STEAR AXILES CLARK PLANITARY REBUILT FORKS AND CARRIAGE 8 FT WIDE 7 FT LONG WITH STEEL BELTED 24 PLY PUMPTURE RESISTANT TIRES FOR ..
The last 15 kilometers was very bad and we had a pumpture also in one Sumo. First on reaching we started with the free health check up. ...
www.mail-archive.com/assam@pikespeak…/msg02331.html – Cached
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Beautiful. I’ve caused a number of bicycle innertubes to explode through overinflation, so the logic of this works for me. And I like the nc>>mp alternation—a substitution we don’t see often.
This shows up in “acupumpture,” too, and I found an instance on a French health forum:
moi pareil je sort de l’acupumpture donc ca va un peu mieux il ma ressurer mais je pense toujours a la rupture d’anevrisme
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http://forum.doctissimo.fr/sante/spasmo … 3_4445.htm
The writer seems to link acupuncture with the fear of an aneurysm, so at first I thought the use of “acupumpture” was a pun. But reading down the thread, it looks like the writer is serious after all. (Though my experience with French has always been with the formal, bookish variety, so I worry I’m missing a lot in the slangy, colloquial, unpumptuated French of Web forums.)
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Wouldn’t the word have to be “acupompture” to convey to French auditors the image of a pump? Or perhaps you were thinking of some kind of mixed-language error.
Your post, Pat, led me to another eggcorn that hasn’t found a home. I’ll put it a new thread.
Last edited by kem (2009-07-05 12:03:39)
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Kem wrote:
Wouldn’t the word have to be “acupompture†to convey to French auditors the image of a pump? Or perhaps you were thinking of some kind of mixed-language error.
At first I wrote something like “a cross-language joke” instead of a “pun,” since that would explain the pump/pomp difference. But then I worried that that line of thinking was Anglophonecentric—as if everyone else was thinking in my language. If the wordplay was a pun, however, the vowels didn’t need to be that close. On the other hand, my few attempts at speaking French have been a source of endless mirth for all who’ve heard them, so I’m apparently not a good judge of French pronunciation in the first place.
Last edited by patschwieterman (2009-07-05 13:42:38)
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As we say here in Canada, “French isn’t hard. I’ve learned it several times.”
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