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Chris -- 2018-04-11
‘Mixgivings’ looks like a blend between misgivings and mixed feelings.
Having a deep philosophical meaning, this thread set out to examine the inner workings of the human mind. It was purposefully vague and left to interpretation to keep the experiment from being contaminated with the overwraught mixgivings of personal bias.
(http://www.mario-kart.net/gcf/index.php … edirect=no)
However, I had mixgivings as to their * brilliance * to defeat the opposing force.
(http://www.nigeriansinamerica.com/vbull … -3070.html)
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I thought we’d already listed this one, but I’m not finding it:
I have real mixed givings about that
A blend of misgivings and mixed feelings, as David B rightly comments. Which doesn’t stop it from being an eggcorn, of course.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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Was it the mismatch/mixmatch post you were thinking of? (http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=749)
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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No, but it’s relevant. The whole thing is rather a mixmash.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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There seem to be a few mixunderstandings too. Though the s just above the x on a keyboard.
On the plain in Spain where it mainly rains.
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Drat, I think you’re right, Juan. There are plenty of examples of mizgivings, midgivings, miagivings, etc.
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