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#1 2014-05-10 01:00:37

JuanTwoThree
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From: Spain
Registered: 2009-08-15
Posts: 455

A Fisherman's Tale

Some time during the night I thought of an excellent eggcorn to check up on this morning. Now I can’t remember it. But it was huge!

It happens a lot.


On the plain in Spain where it mainly rains.

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#2 2014-05-10 14:22:34

kem
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From: Victoria, BC
Registered: 2007-08-28
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Re: A Fisherman's Tale

To me, too, many times. I’ve gotten in the habit of writing down my discoveries somewhere, just so I can remember them in the morning.


Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.

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#3 2014-05-10 18:32:15

burred
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From: Montreal
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Re: A Fisherman's Tale

Me three.

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#4 2014-05-10 21:09:26

DavidTuggy
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From: Mexico
Registered: 2007-10-11
Posts: 2767
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Re: A Fisherman's Tale

We can probably make that magnanimous. As kem says (comma omitted) “To me, too many times.” Any exceptions out there, people who don’t lose a lot of beautiful structures that you hear or that cross your mine? (The best perps of course lose them more quickly and with no trace.)


*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .

(Possible Corollary: it is, and we are .)

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#5 2014-05-11 03:16:36

JuanTwoThree
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Re: A Fisherman's Tale

There is the nagging possibility, if not the high probability, that they weren’t much good.

Especially if liquorous potations had been taken some hours before.

On the plain in Spain where it mainly rains.

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