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Chris -- 2018-04-11
An amusing visual while retaining the meaning of the original.
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Some dictionaries (online ones) are starting to list “intertwingle.” Presumably it is a blend rather than an eggcorn.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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So I see, in Wiktionary. I used the term, in a romantic context, in the 60’s thinking I had coined it for that purpose. I now feel like the inventor of 1-Up through 6-Up, who gave up before he could come up with 7-Up.
Pooh.
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I know how you feel, Wordsmyth. I myself invented the term “silent but deadly” (in reference to farts) and its abbreviation “SBD” at about age twelve in the early 60s—only to discover recently from this Google Ngram result that “silent but deadly” has been in use for at least two centuries. But surely re-invention is better than never having invented at all!
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You’re right, Dixon. I invented a new word, you know—plagiarism
“I always wanted to be somebody. I should have been more specific.” – Lily Tomlin
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I like the way you think, Dixon. Yano, it ain’t plagiarism if you don’t know you’re doin’ it.
BTW, my “intertwingled” Google Ngram looks like a stock in which I should have invested in 1947 and sold just before the “Great Recession.”
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