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#1 2016-06-30 02:17:51

Dixon Wragg
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From: Cotati, California
Registered: 2008-07-04
Posts: 1375

"drastic" for "Jurassic"

Scientific terms like “Jurassic” are not in most people’s vocabularies, so it’s no surprise that some would replace “Jurassic” with a more familiar term such as “drastic”. The most common related term by far is “Jurassic Park”, so I searched for the eggcornish equivalent “drastic park”. Digging through the numerous puns, I found some examples of apparent eggcorns.

Have ya seen Drastic Park? Twas documentary on Velociraptors!
velociraptor discussion

this is drastic park the dinosaurs are coming
rap lyric

How To Beat The Pterodactyl Drastic Park Lego
sports article title

4th of July. Parade drastic park theme for springs preserve !
caption of photo depicting dinosaur float in parade

Watching drastic park
vine caption

If you have a dinosaur from drastic park then play
gaming invitation

The events depicted in “Jurassic Park” were certainly drastic, so…

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#2 2016-07-09 13:21:24

kem
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From: Victoria, BC
Registered: 2007-08-28
Posts: 2851

Re: "drastic" for "Jurassic"

Not bad


Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.

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#3 2016-07-13 09:17:58

yanogator
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From: Ohio
Registered: 2007-06-07
Posts: 237

Re: "drastic" for "Jurassic"

Your first one isn’t an eggcorn, though. It is a short animated film. Your quote even mentions that it is a documentary. The others are a good find.

Bruce


“I always wanted to be somebody. I should have been more specific.” – Lily Tomlin

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#4 2016-07-13 14:34:03

Dixon Wragg
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From: Cotati, California
Registered: 2008-07-04
Posts: 1375

Re: "drastic" for "Jurassic"

yanogator wrote:

Your first one isn’t an eggcorn, though. It is a short animated film. Your quote even mentions that it is a documentary.

Oh, okay, thanks, Bruce. I thought the person was referring to the Jurassic Park movie and just misusing the term “documentary”. I’ll go ahead and edit out that example. No, wait—if I edit it out now, people will be confused by your comment, so I’ll leave it in.

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#5 2016-08-01 04:44:59

crispybacon
Member
From: Wellington, New Zealand
Registered: 2015-07-19
Posts: 24

Re: "drastic" for "Jurassic"

Is this a round-tripper? Jurassic = on a historic, T-rex-like scale.

https://sites.google.com/site/ramswriti … and-effect
In all Roosevelt made jurassic reforms to the American government and gained the popularity of the people. He became a powerful force in the world of politics, and in the realm of the common American people. Roosevelt used his power to make reforms and unify the states, and overall improve the country.

http://tmjhparkcitypost.blogspot.co.nz/ … ution.html
In the past few decades, some efforts have been made to reduce pollution around the Taj Mahal, including banning vehicles near the site. But now they have taken more jurassic measures. In January, Agra’s government banned the burning of cow dung in the city.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8938893/1/ … f-Vampires
It has been over 300 years from the tragedy of Cross Academy. Cameron Cross is the daughter of Yuki Cross and she had been changed into a human just as she had been. Now Cameron starts going through Jurassic changes when she gets turned by her lover Dimitri.

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#6 2016-08-01 04:59:42

Dixon Wragg
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From: Cotati, California
Registered: 2008-07-04
Posts: 1375

Re: "drastic" for "Jurassic"

Nice find, crispybacon! I usually look for round-trippers, but didn’t think that one was likely enough to search for. Boy, was I wrong!

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#7 2016-08-01 14:27:14

crispybacon
Member
From: Wellington, New Zealand
Registered: 2015-07-19
Posts: 24

Re: "drastic" for "Jurassic"

Kids love dinosaurs and prehistory. I knew the word Jurassic (and Triassic and Cretaceous) at the age of seven or eight, but I don’t think I came across “drastic” until I was a little older. This was before Jurassic Park, and I’d imagine the proportion of people who met “Jurassic” before they met “drastic” has increased since then, even if they come across “drastic” more than “Jurassic” in adulthood. So I wasn’t too surprised to find these. There were a lot of puns to wade through though!

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