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Chris -- 2018-04-11
See: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/class- … alist.html
Context:
“Giveit up man Rhee was and still is a FRUD and the others that lost there Job will get them back sooner than you think now . Rhee padded the Data so that she could look like she was the Best thing for DCPS but the whole time she was using Dr Clifford Janey’s Plan for School Reform but she tweaked it to her advantage and she had all her Clowns follow her lead and this shows that it was all for Human Capital and to change Dcps to Teach For Americia and all the Princples will be from New Leaders but thanks for Her Favorite fan Jay Mattews for being a Rhee Supporter Jay She Made you Look STUPID A HELL SO REALIZE IT MAN SHE WAS A FRUD”
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Hi, korm, and welcome!
Does frud mean something particular? I don’t know any widely-accepted meaning for it. Via “sound symbolism†or “phonestheticsâ€, which we’ve discussed a number of times on this forum, it means something disagreeable and likely despicable, and it can easily be taken as a blend of several words with disagreeable meanings, but I don’t know that I ever heard or saw it before this post.
I would guess it is either (a) an omission misspelling, which (quite interestingly) got repeated twice (was the computer keyboard’s capital A sticking?). Note that the capital S of AS is also missing, and there are other typos in the post. Or, (b) the author is purposefully using something non-standard, perhaps trying to invent a new insult, or using an in-group jargon term (however that term arose). In neither case is it an eggcorn.
Of course, not being an eggcorn doesn’t mean it isn’t interesting and fun in its way.
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2011-02-10 07:48:01)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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