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Chris -- 2018-04-11
“It’s a jumble out there”
“Jungle sale”
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Where’d you get those, Ben?
*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 thought of it the other day while I was riding my bike; they’re eggcorns right?
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Well, a real eggcorn should be standard for the person using it: that person should think it is the normal way to say the word or phrase in question. When you think something up as an example, and enjoy its anomaly enough to submit it to a forum like this, it clearly isn’t an eggcorn in your case. If you can find somebody else for whom it is standard, or document enough reasonable cases (e.g. on the Internet) to make it seem probable that it is standard for someone, it would work.
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If you (or I) could document it somehow, it’s the sort of thing I’d love to add to this collection . (In fact, “It’s a Jumble Out There†would be a great title for that list.) In a quick Google check I found lots of examples that are clearly advertent and purposeful (and thus neither eggcorns nor candidates for my list) but none that I could convince myself were highly likely to be both inadvertent and standard. (I don’t have time to look carefully—there might well be some out there. But in the nature of things it’s pretty hard to be sure, if you don’t have someone willing to confess, “Oh, I always thought it was [eggcorn], not [acorn]â€.)
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So for me these are entertaining possible malapropistic jokes or at best sporadic malapropisms, not clear eggcorns.
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2009-11-10 21:17:34)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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It’s not “jungle saleâ€, but:
My brain is just all jungled up together and could not compute a single thing what she was telling me about.
My comment may not sound clear since my mind is all jungled up.
My classes are all jungled up and sometimes I get the access to a university computer and sometimes I don’t
Had a bit of an adventure on Sunday, took them along the river and got all jungled up in nettles and weeds as high as my boobs.
Maybe a blend of jumbled with tangled instead of/as well as an eggcorn. That context of the last example is perfect enough that you have to wonder if it was on purpose. Many other exx. out there.
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2009-11-10 21:37:52)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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