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Chris -- 2025-05-10
Probably old news to you all, but I couldn’t really get a good search on such common words. Does this qualify as an eggcorn?
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If it would of made any sense it might of. I of never been able to get a clear image/meaning shift between have and Ì¥_of_ here (note e.g. that both can be used of possession in a very wide sense of that term), and tend to think of this as more phonologically driven (i.e. the spelling of represents the sloppy-speech pronunciation that has become perfectly standard, but is more standardly spelled “’veâ€.).
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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