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Chris -- 2025-05-10

#1 2021-10-20 06:55:04

Peter Forster
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From: UK
Registered: 2006-09-06
Posts: 1274

'soon army' for 'tsunami'

Immensely powerful, overwhelmingly destructive and it may arrive at any moment, tsunami is often used figuratively, as in the tsunami of Hallowe’en dross and garbage swamping many shops at the moment. The possible eggcorn soon army would seem a reasonable pidgin term for approaching force, and has, albeit clumsily, reconstrued a Japanese word into something descriptive and almost meaningful.

That it is presented as two words suggests that it is more than a mere phonetic rendering, especially as its natural point of cleavage, to my ear at least, lies elsewhere: poor Sue Narmy, an enormous lass with an explosive temper and not a friend in the world

We don’t know but a soon army of creators and performers are compelled to keep making new futures and collaborations.

There’s been a soon army of private pain, even for fairly lucky people and for the unlucky twenty twenty was just brutal and publicly …

And if that really goes, it could create a soon army that could flood the coasts, the eastern seaboard of the United States.

It was 4REAL/surreal #interdependent #newerwave A soon army of talent/allies.

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#2 2021-11-24 16:25:43

kem
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From: Victoria, BC
Registered: 2007-08-28
Posts: 2887

Re: 'soon army' for 'tsunami'

This is so good that one has to consider punning intentions.


Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.

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