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Chris -- 2018-04-11
I would have put this down as a typographical error had I not heard someone say tonight (twice) “tangenital” when they meant “tangential” ...
All this ceases to be an issue with a tangenital tonearm, as there is no … Simplified, but without sacrificing the benefits of tangenital tonearms, ...
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On a slightly tangenital note about television. I think TV is undergoing a massive massive polarisation in standards, and whilst I agree that the bad is …
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Wherein I address Catch, since it’s completely tangenital to the topic at hand. ... My point is tangenital to the actual conversation here. ...
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I like it Marty, but I’m having difficulty in imagining what imagery the eggcorners are entertaining here; one definition of tangential is to be only slightly connected, which I suppose you could argue is the case for male genitalia but surely eggcorners aren’t thinking along those lines? It’s certainly popular enough though, with ‘tangenital’ reaching 11,200 googlehits. (‘Tangenial’ has 1,110 and ‘tangenteel’, sadly, only the one.) It strikes me that ‘congenital’ may also be exerting some influence here?
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I was wondering if there was any influence from the word genesis (as an origin of something). So, “tangenital” would refer to something that has it’s origin in a tangent—at least in the mind of the utterer.
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