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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Dampers as a slip for diapers is an easy blend of diaper, damp, damper, and Pampers.
sipping baby bottles like we wear dampers (from instagram)
http://www.imgrum.net/user/blk_tomcruis … 8_17696847
Don’t mind Mr Liar. An old who doesn’t respect his age he thought we wear dampers like kids he can feed lies and we will believe maybe his fans but not me. Baba go slow
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top … s-pdp.html
Their organs don’t work as well as they used to before when they were younger, therefore sometimes they need to wear dampers again because they cannot control their urinary bladder.
https://jlolifestages.wordpress.com/
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The notion of damping/dampers as mitigating unpleasant effects makes sense. Who knows if people are actually thinking it, though.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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A surprising and curious eggcorn. Common enough to make me think that this is more than a WTF slip.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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