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Chris -- 2025-05-10
I have the same speaker who used “surplant” for “supplant.”
Now he said, “What I find instrumentative is that certain people with the same condition will have no symptoms.”
I assume he meant “illustrative” but I don’t really know. Maybe it’s in the place of “instructive.”
Would “instrumentative” be an eggcorn for “illustrative? or “instructive?”
I am trying to figure out if “instrumentative” is also a word and, if so, what it means. It seems it may be a grammatical term in certain languages, a case like genitive, nominative, etc.
Any feedback?
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