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Chris -- 2025-05-10
8 Mar 017
Hey, all,
Sorry for overloading the system all of a sudden. I unexpectedly got most of a day free, and decided to check my database for potential eggcorns I’d flagged in the last year or so. Don’t know when I’ll get a chance to do it again.
Don’t seem to run out of them, though a lot are fairly pedestrian.
—dt
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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DavidTuggy wrote:
8 Mar 017
Trivial correction, FWIW: Don’t you mean “8 April”?
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I lose a whole month, and you think it’s trivial??!!
(S’awright. Yes, I did mean 8 April.)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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Welcome back, DavidT. If Henry Stanley shows up, tell him we’ve already found you.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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Dr. Luther, I presume?
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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Wasn’t it Groucho who when a reporter accosted him with “Mr. Marx, I presume?â€, replied, “You do,†and closed the door in his face?
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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