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Chris -- 2018-04-11
I was at a panel last night and one of the speakers said, “The world is in a state of flex.” It’s sort of funny, but so wrong. A “state of flux” comes from the field of physics and refers to the rate of change of movement or flow. IMHO, “state of flex” deserves to be an eggcorn.
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Welcome, dlarson. Eggcorns are perhaps more uninformed than strictly wrong. I say this because the imagery of an eggcorn always makes sense (by definition). It just so happens that “state of flux” is the standard idiom, but “state of flex” captures the notion of displacement from a baseline position, so I think it succeeds as an eggcorn on its own merits. By the way, flux can also refer to continuous movement rather than changing movement. Perhaps someone could comment on its etymology which precedes its adoption into physics.
Overall I think we’ve got a pretty nice eggcorn here. Is there anything more that needs to be said about its imagery?
Last edited by jorkel (2007-11-15 09:57:11)
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