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Chris -- 2018-04-11
A lot of places that become my favorites were just a result of serpendipity (wondering around and stumbling into
restaurants
Life is full of serpendipity if you ever come across a Noemi!
Every band of the electromagnetic spectrum has had its share of serpendipitous sources and the VHE band should be no exception.
Additionally, if you have an existential or serpendipitous dilemna, feel free to post it here and we’ll see what we can do.
Because of your serpendipitous discovery, your department gets the invitation to stage the play
This was heard in the wild yesterday (—my Christmas present from my wife and son—) and shows up on the Internet commonly enough.
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It is doubtless a blend with serpent(ine) , but is at least somewhat eggcornish in that what is serendipitous is notably non-straightforward, depending on the twists and vagaries of fate (or Providence or whatever). The “wondering around†of the first quote gets into the spirit of the thing.
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2009-12-26 11:29:51)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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Seems like a possible semantic reshaping. I buy it.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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Indoublitably serpendipitous, slips off the tongue (see #8 at http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/view … hp?id=2764).
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