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Chris -- 2025-05-10
Here’s what may be an emerging eggcorn to watch for:
In transcript of NPR Op-Ed
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor … =129682981
from caller DAVID: ” ...I can kind of cold switch from Ebonics and to maybe, I guess people say job-interview voice or whatnot…”
I listened to the audio and it doesn’t appear to be a transcription error.
Last edited by Theodore (2010-09-09 15:15:12)
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Welcome to the forum, Theodore. An interesting find. Do you think there is any logic for the switch between “code” and “cold”? An eggcorn substitution needs to make some degree of sense. I’m wondering whether the idea of doing something “cold”—abruptly, unprepared, on the spur of the moment—might be involved here.
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