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Chris -- 2011-03-08
“Condom” for “condone?” I could make up some reason why such a switch could make some sense (They both overlap with the semantics of “sanitize,” for example.). It is probably the work of a malapropic demon, though.
Asian bulletin board: “I want to make it clear I don’t condom the behavior of PUAs.”
Comment on celebrity news site: “.I don’t condom hitting a woman; but like others, Rihanna is not innocent from what she has done to Chris.”
Comment on timepiece collector’s forum: “While I don’t condom or tolerate the selling of fakes for all of the reasons stated earlier, I don’t mind that a watch looks similiar and someone would prefer it over an IWC, its entirely up to them.”
A number of other creative spellings of “condone” – “codnone,” “condown,” “condon” – are also found on the web.
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I wonder if “cotton to” (which has the right stress pattern on the main word) might have made its way into the mix.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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This is quite off topic, but it struck me the first time I saw a signboard for a condo for sale, that the word should be condom. You’re not do ing together, you’re dom ing together. Come to think of it, a condom is perhaps more aptly a condo, ‘cause there you are doing it together.
Last edited by David Bird (2011-09-21 19:41:00)
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