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Chris -- 2018-04-11
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Gripping his pistol, he took his position and awaited the on slot.
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(and many more). The word-division difference is probably not a major issue.
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Could of course be more an alternate spelling than anything else. It seems vaguely eggcornish to me—I’m trying to figure out why. The liquid violence of sloshing and sluicing around in a slot somehow seems involved. Of course if it were the other way around I would think of the violence of slaughtering being there. I presume that’s there in the “standard†version: on with the slaughter? Was ist schlechter?
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Anyhow, it’s an interesting substitution.
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*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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Ahem. Let’s put aside the liquid violence of sloshing and sluicing around in a slot for the moment, shall we? fans self
On slot looks like it might be a funny misinterpretation of onslaught as some sort of switching device, like punching in for a day at work. As semantic reaches go, it could be worse:
I am fascinated by the numerous opportunities to make money online, as I’m sure you are. What I also found is that there are so many claims of instant riches that after awhile you can become desensitized by this awn slot.
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The slot in window blinds? The light flooding in under an awning?
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“On slot” seems like it might mean “on target.” An onslaught is targeting someone.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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David Bird wrote:
Ahem. Let’s put aside the liquid violence of sloshing and sluicing around in a slot for the moment, shall we? fans self
Your mind is in the gutter, tocayo, while mine (much more properly) was in the irrigation ditch (I think—we aren’t but a minute’s walk here from fields with irrigation ditches running alongside, and had gone out walking that day.) Seriously, do you suppose some sort of sexual reference (onslot = rape?) might be in the users’ minds? Somehow seems less than probable to me, but I guess it’s the sort of possibility that should never be completely discounted.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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No, I don’t think it’s that. If I look seriously for associations for “on slot” in the examples you’ve posted, I get something like “events to come with a certain inevitability, they’re slated, ordained”. They’re coming on, down the slot, they’re in the sluice, as you’ve said. Most of the examples portray situations that are far from violent, however. I don’t see the association of “onslaught” with “slaughter”.
I liked the example “offset the on slot”. A bit like moving the needle on a vinyl record into the next slot over.
It is interesting that you connect onslaught and slaughter. Somehow I never made that connection, but others have. Despite quite different origins (Du. and Eng., respectively), onslaught’s spelling was influenced by the preexisting slaught, for slaughter.
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