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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Coulda sworn that this one had a;ready been mentioned, at least for the adverse/averse version, but search didn’t find it.
“The catholics have an adversion to brains? :)”
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008 … p#comments
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How do you think they construe it? Is there an important imagery shift?
(Why would the writer pick on the Catholics? I ain’t one, but aversion to brains would fit some other religious groups far better. fwtw.)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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You’d have to read the comments thread and the blog entry to get the context re: brains.
As far as the imagery, I’d think that it involves taking the negativity of adverse and thinking that that is the basis of the misheard word averse.
Incidentally, I’ve heard this one spoken before, people saying “I wouldn’t be adverse to that” etc.
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Craig—maybe you were thinking of the adverse>>averse, averse>>adverse entries in the Database.
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patschwieterman wrote:
Craig—maybe you were thinking of the adverse>>averse, averse>>adverse entries in the Database.
yep, sure was. My google/eggcorn/word search method failed. :(
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