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Chris -- 2025-05-10
Twitter is an amazing resource for finding eggcorns:
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But it’s not an eggcorn if it doesn’t make sense. What sense does case ideas make in the contexts of Mexican cookery or eating snacks?
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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It could also be that the person used voice recognition on the phone and said quesadilla. Ah, phonecorns!
I think the “wrote tell” later in the thread is Rotel (canned tomatoes and chili peppers).
“I always wanted to be somebody. I should have been more specific.” – Lily Tomlin
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