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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Is “dramatic brain injury” a legitimate term or is it an eggcorn for “traumatic brain injury”?
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It could easily enough be both (at different times and/or for different speakers.)
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It’s been discussed several times on the site, e.g. here
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Go to the database page and do a search on “traumatic†with the google search engine (the second search option on that page) to find others. It’s a good idea to check out any submission that way. We’ve done at least some thinking about a lot of them (though it is still perfectly legitimate to rethink them.)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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Here’s another variant I’ve stumbled across. Neither work well in BrEnglish, where most usage would rhyme with korma rather than karma. For some of us the initial syllable would rhyme with cow, which doesn’t work either. But mainly I just want to displace that slice of spam which this post now sits upon.
Justin suffered both his legs broken and severe head drama.
Right now I’m recovering from a brain drama caused from a seizure from being over drugged by doctors.
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