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Chris -- 2018-04-11
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I don’t know, that seems like a reasonable construction, although not perhaps in any dictionary.
Here’s another that’s definitely re-imaging, although I don’t know exactly what the image might be…
“yeah, it’s basically a fork on conclusion there’ll be a sequel for this game after all the critical acclaim,”
http://www.psu.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4401622
I’ve only got two hits, though, and they appear to be from the same person, several months apart…
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I think “foredrawn conclusion” is a valid eggcorn because the utterer is more likely to have assembled those words after hearing the expression “foregone conclusion” (than never hearing it at all). The eggcorn is blending “draw a conclusion” with “foregone conclusion.”
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I like this one—”foredrawn conclusion.”
And the “fore-” part also has its eggcornish jujitsu, as David T pointed out last month.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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“Foredrawn conclusion” would have been a more sensible expression. And after “hold down the fork”, now we have “fork on conclusion”.
Another way of seeing it is as a “forgot conclusion”, which I think is being used in the sense of something overlooked but inevitable. About 6 hits.
College sports forum
I think it’s a forgot conclusion that we don’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of winning the east.
What were Japan’s chances in WWII
Indeed, if you look at Japan’s industrial production you can see that it was a forgot conclusion.
Home car repair
I assume that the consul around the shifter will need to be removed to get to parts 10 and 11. If 10 has come off is it a forgot conclusion that the tranny conection has also come off?
Last edited by David Bird (2010-07-19 20:16:30)
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David Bird wrote:
Home car repair
I assume that the consul around the shifter will need to be removed to get to parts 10 and 11. If 10 has come off is it a forgot conclusion that the tranny conection has also come off?
I’m very glad you mentioned that this quote was on the subject of home car repair, David, as at first glance I thought it was about sex reassignment surgery.
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I’ve just noticed “full blown conclusion”, used where “foregone conclusion” should have been used. Examples:
1. Big Brother UK daily show Day 67: the housemates were talking about an upcoming eviction, and one repeatedly used “full blown conclusion” to talk about the most likely eviction;
2. A rugby forum:
http://www.thebaistand.com/index.php?op … pic=2239.0
”(Nikau deserves it, but SOMEONE has to come in 2nd, and it’s already a full-blown conclusion that Nikau will win)”
3. AllAfrica.com:
http://allafrica.com/stories/200507250934.html
“By the time she finished displaying her talent, it became a full blown conclusion that Snorti Forh was tipped for this year’s crown of Miss Liberia. ”
4. Hagen Stehr as quoted in The Australian:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/busines … 5834008771
“”A lot of people called me an arrogant bastard but I always thought that it was a full-blown conclusion and that it was only a matter of time,” he says. “The rest of the world said it can’t be done, but we just kept on going.”
5. commenter ‘poitsplace’ on the BBC:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters … bitio.html
“There is no question that your demands WILL NOT BE MET with currently used “alternative” technology. Its a full blown conclusion. ”
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An astute observation, lauredhel. “Full blown conclusion” could be a legitimate construction in its own right, as an extension of “full-blown X” (i.e., a complete example of X). But the instances you cite do look like the writer should have used “foregone.”
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Last edited by kem (2010-08-15 00:05:47)
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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