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Chris -- 2025-05-10
That pretty much summons up the things we’ve done so far.
That about summons it up in one line. I enjoyed the character development and plot.
To summon it up we can say that civil disobedience is distinguished by a non-violent resistance to unfair laws
Recorded in both spoken and written forms.
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This one makes sense to me: when one sums up one typically does so by giving a précis, which (if done well) evokes (“summons upâ€) the essence of what is being summarized. The independent existence of summon up means that many cases can be correctly interpreted either way, but I think you all will probably agree that in the cases cited above (and there are many more) “sum it up†would be the more expected form.
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2010-05-13 17:39:18)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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The round tripper (sum up << summon up) was discussed in 2007: http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/view … hp?id=2060
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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Eggcornquistadors. Magnificent.
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