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Chris -- 2018-04-11
I don’t mean to cast assertions, but this is a surprisingly common eggcorn.
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Welcome to the eggcorn website Honzik20. We’ve had a couple variants of the eggcorn you suggest before:
“Casting nasturtiums” for “aspersions” by keenanpepper Contribute! 2 2007-09-06 04:05:26 by AdamVero
‘cast dispersions’ for ‘cast aspersions’ by klakritz Contribute! 1 2005-11-28 16:36:54 by Ben Zimmer
Even so, your version seems distinct from these others, and I personally think it makes better sense as an eggcorn. (At least it’s more than just a prefix alteration).
Also, I’m actually a bit surprised that it isn’t more widespread (based on the Google hits below). Perhaps there’s another wording that might generate some more examples…
Google hits on Nov 28, 2007…
9 “cast assertions”
31 “casting assertions”
Examples:
Re: pkgsrc on fedora seems to need /bin/(ba)sh replaced by /...
... its in the 1.8x rev (since Keith Bostic) so I guess the other auther must be responsible. I wouldn’t go casting assertions on Mr Bostic’s coding skills. ...
osdir.com/ml/netbsd.devel.pkgsrc.user/2006-12/ms… – 11k – Similar pages
http://osdir.com/ml/netbsd.devel.pkgsrc … 00007.html
dsource.org – forums
I am getting a few casting assertions from inside llvm as well….are all tests supposed to pass (except some of the bug*.d test files, of course)? Thanks, ...
www.dsource.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=17287&sid… – 67k – Similar pages
http://www.dsource.org/forums/viewtopic … d7edf09764
JSTOR: Communications
As Bross (1960) has noted, the appropriate role of a critic is not simply to cast assertions but empirically to test the validity of counter-hy- potheses. ...
links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-0554(197909)73%3A3%3C818%3A… – Similar pages
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-0554(197909)73%3A3%3C818%3AC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-E
John Nanchang China : My Telegraph
Words such as ideology and doctrine are used as weapons to cast assertions on the people whom disagree with her political arguments. ...
my.telegraph.co.uk/john_nanchang_china/?cmd=comm… – 40k – Similar pages
http://my.telegraph.co.uk/john_nanchang … d=comments
Thai king Under monarchy you are a subject not a citizen 2
If you can find any section from the original video where I insulted the king or cast assertions on his character then point it out to me. ...
www.sus-shib.co.uk/Thai-king-Under-monarchy-you-... – 31k – Similar pages
http://www.sus-shib.co.uk/Thai-king-Und … zen-2.aspx
http://www.qando.net/ – The inevitable fiscal train wreck
You once again cast assertions upon me that do not exist. I have never claimed that the Dem’s haven’t brought about policy, economically, culturally, ...
www.qando.net/details.aspx?Entry=3601 – 79k – Similar pages
http://www.qando.net/details.aspx?Entry=3601
[PDF]§5 Are Species Individuals?
theory, we may grant, offers an exceptionally powerful language in which to cast assertions about pluralities. But. it is not the only such language — and …
www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~mslater/resear … iesbook… – Similar pages
http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~mslater … SR-ch5.pdf
Last edited by jorkel (2007-11-28 10:36:03)
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