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Chris -- 2018-04-11
I can see how that could be taken two ways.. the first being with the sexual con notation and the latter having to deal with life on life’s terms with my birth.
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I’ve never really known anyone that dated someone outside their race wait I have but the one that comes to mind it had a sexual con-notation to it.
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It appears that, although the word “idea†originated from the Greek idein, “to see,†the confused con notation of idea as a thought ripple entered the definition and succeeded in corrupting the original scientific clarity.
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While today “protest †has the negative con-notation of opposition or objection, in the sixteenth century the Latin word “protestari†had the positive meaning “to profess, to witness.â€
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Just a typo in many cases? Sure, but that’s way less likely to be true in the hyphenated examples. “Notation” could be understood as anything that’s indicated or denoted, while the “con” part could be seen as a negative meaning, as in “con” versus “pro”, or deceit, as in “con artist”, or even “with”, as in Latin, Spanish or Italian. I’m calling this an eggcorn. I can’t think offhand of any other eggcorns wherein the eggcorn is spelled and pronounced exactly like the acorn except for an added space (with or without a hyphen). Have we seen such a thing before?
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This may also be what I called, in an earlier post, an acombination silicism. Or at least an inverted one. Inappropriate spaces and hyphens can result from the reformatting of text with embedded per-line linefeeds.
Even if intended, the word split does not necessarily introduce new meaning. Most people who use the word “connotation” could probably, if pressed, supply “notation” as the morphemic base.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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