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Chris -- 2018-04-11
This reflects during Ophelia’s funreal how much anger and regret Hamlet felt and how he waisted his chance to be with Ophelia.
When he was staying in England at the time of the queen’s funreal he received a telegram
The funreal procession for Los Angeles firefighter Brent Lovrien makes it’s way up Temple Street
Sure, it’s probably just (or at least mostly) a fingerslip (metathesis) typo, but do we have a category for anti-eggcorns, mistakes that prompt meanings somehow opposite of the sort of thing you would expect in the context? It seems like I remember something, but I don’t remember …
*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 seems like I remember something, but I don’t remember …
Sounds familiar to me too, and yet . . .
An Anglo monoglot living in Wales may occasionally come across the word fynwent, especially near a church. It is a soft mutation of the word mynwent, sounds very much like ‘fun-went’ and means graveyard.
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One name we used for these two-headed eggcorns was “controcorn.” Examples: bawdlerize, 360-degree turn, separate the weed from the chaff, undevoted attention.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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Oh, yeah! Thanks, Kem!
(and thanks to you [isn’t it?] for getting this list online again. If it takes money to keep it up, can others of us contribute somehow? I’d be willing to do some.)
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*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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