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#1 2009-10-04 00:04:18

David Bird
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From: The Hammer, Ontario
Registered: 2009-07-28
Posts: 1702

"Scaremonster" for scaremonger

Who besides Monty Python still goes to the fishmongers? Instead of fear mongering, then, trying to excite emotions could be *fear monstering”. Not as common as it should be.

News has come that MCCAIN friend mr.Bud Day is saying more garbage about a Moslem ppl. just you read it by self and make a judgements who is a good parson and who is making the fear-monstering!!
(http://moslemsforobama.com/)

wikipedia says nothing about tuvalu going away, more leftist scaremonstering.
(snippet from forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2871712)

BTW, there apparently is a recent precedent for using monster as a verb:

There is even a name for an interrogator staying with a prisoner until one or the other of them breaks: it’s called “monstering.”
(http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/23/books … gewanted=2)

Edit: See also “war mongreling” submitted by Pat : http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=164

Last edited by David Bird (2009-10-04 15:10:32)

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