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#1 2006-09-02 02:59:15

blazius
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Registered: 2006-09-02
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Automagic

Blend of automatic and magic; from the principle (often called Clarke’s third law) that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. (Source: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/automagic)

This is certainly not a new eggcorn, it appears in a Usenet posting from 1983: http://groups.google.no/group/net.unix- … 5760be6476

Equivalents exist in other languages, such as “automagisk” (replacing “automatisk”) in Norwegian.

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