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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Bored and eggcorn hunting.
Figured sidekick powers wouldn’t be a confirmable eggcorn, but interesting… until I found this example:
“Secretly I hope he is a trainee ninja and that he hunts me down with his sidekick powers…”
http://netsword.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/000926.html
Wouldn’t be too surprising for a ninja to have sidekick powers, would it?
A less obvious one:
“no, cause Flip’s album has been waiting since before December, way before King came out….so, unless Flip has sidekick powers…..i doubt its a dis”
http://forum.rapgodfathers.com/rap-talk … ot-ti.html
And there are quite a few results for a gsearch on “my sidekick powers.”
“Right im off into the real world now where my sidekick powers are useless!!! ”
“seeing as you haven’t posted what type of boiler i will use my sidekick powers to predict you have a”
“I reckon they’ll get six, now using my sidekick powers, Lampard will get 4, J Cole and Kalou the others.”
“They are the only ones who know of my sidekick powers.”
“My sidekick powers tell me this guy wants something. ... That’s when my sidekick powers wake up from their nap and deliver me a single word”
“Marie, you of all people should be scared of my sidekick powers!! ”
I was thinking that it wouldn’t be an eggcorn in general, because what kind of powers would a sidekick have? But maybe the important part is the “kick.” Maybe not just the ninja reference is thinking of a physical kick, though it’s still hard to see what connection that would have to a situation where someone knows something they shouldn’t otherwise know.
Strange.
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Took me a while to realize “Oh, psychic powers.”
There’s a sort of Catch-22: the “side-kick” makes no sense unless you’re talking about either kicking sideways or a companion, but neither of those makes sense if the overall meaning has to do with psychic powers. So a lot of the “side-kick powers” seem to be relatively literal and legitimate (e.g. the power a game player has to kick sideways, or the powers the player’s companion has)—and where it means “powers to do mental things most people can’t”, the side-kick analysis makes no sense. So it’s certainly a malapropism in those cases, but not an eggcorn. I don’t think.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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