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Chris -- 2018-04-11
I was surprised to read this in an article about affordable housing in the newspaper where I used to work. Its appearance online (and presumably in print) means it went through, probably, two layers of editing:
“There’s a lot of taking 1960 strip commercial centers and turning them into housing,†said Don Thomas, housing and community development specialist for the Department of Housing and Community Development. “There’s development that has to occur there. That’s part and partial of what needs to be included. We need to know the specifics.â€
http://www.dailypilot.com/articles/2007 … sing07.txt
Most of the first batch of references through Google seem to be statistical methods, but then there’s this:
Act 7. All members must promptly attend their meetings and become a part and partial of all uplifting acts of the Moorish Science Temple of America.
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Wood … rdocs3.htm
And about four pages later, this:
Justice is naturally good for humans – it is part and partial of human flourishing.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm? … _id=959646
So this doesn’t appear to be a common mistake – unlike when someone else at the paper wrote how people accused him of “towing the line.” I’ll save my comments about how it’s not surprising the journalism industry is going down the tubes.
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A good find. Similar to “partial post” for “parcel post”—which you can find all over eBay. I submitted that one a while back. You can find it with a search.
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I heard this one today on the radio, in a discussion about MAID – medical assistance in dying. The professorial guest said, “Suicidality is part and partial of mental illness.” Not really an eggcorn, is it? The speakers must believe that ‘partial’ is an idiomatic reinforcement. Strength through redonedonecy.
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Redonedone – a permanent part of my ever shuffling top ten. I wondered whether a parting parcel with a dropped g might make an appearance, but it seems not. Part impartial, a part imparted perhaps rather than anything to do with bias, makes an appearance but I’m having difficulty teasing much eggcornishness from it.
And the US has had a resettlement program for Tibetans that has been part impartial of what we have been doing, and I should say in that …
The lack of IEI resources and poor teacher capability is also part impartial of the challenges. In the process of IEI, the college should communicate with …
Running proxies has been a part impartial of this strategy.
Well, I think it was part impartial of the whole thought behind it.
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Why not combat bias while you are at it, Peter? It strikes me how many examples I found are in some kind of vaguely judicial or executive context where carefully drawn and equitable distinctions are important. A couple of your examples fit that pattern to some extent.
Proactive concept for policing: was part impartial of a strong committment to communty involvement
Additionally, if Commissioners would like to use topographer provided mapping software, then that evaluation should be part impartial of hiring a demographer.
Or, as awordnerd quoted,
Justice is naturally good for humans – it is part and partial of human flourishing.
Anyhow, in such contexts I can see how “part impartial” can feel like the mot juste .
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Last edited by DavidTuggy (2024-08-23 19:54:10)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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As usual, you’ve raised the discussion to a whole nother level, Peter and Tocayo. It’s fun to juggle ‘part impartial’ in the mind. Almost zen.
You’re right, Tocayo. I could vaguely see the eggcornitude but the image wasn’t quite formed and I knew you could help.
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