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Chris -- 2018-04-11
It could be imagined that a court is seeking satisfaction, a degree of contentment, in the following examples but I’m beginning to think they may be no more than Cupertinos.
My lawyer told me, “We have him in content of court”, he was suppose to give u the Title to the Time Share but he didnt, with the time share u have to pay …
Any person willfully failing to report as ordered may be punished for content of court. They know how to make you Feel Welcomed! LOL.
was arrested for content of court for not paying fees and child support due to his unclaimed son!
warrant for content of court. Mr. [ ] posted bond and was released with a McHenry County. court date of December 31. November 17, 2007 A rear door of a ..
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I sort of doubt the probability of a Cupertino effect, since indiscriminately accepting spell-check results would probably have replaced u, didnt (in the first example) and LOL (in the second).
It’s possible that “contents” in the sense of “that which is contained” comes into this somehow – though I admit I don’t have a clear idea of how.
Probably more likely is that this is what Arnold Zwicky once called a demi-eggcorn, or a pail. “The errors that I called PAILS in an earlier posting—named for the pail of beyond the pail—are demi-eggcorns: they provide familiar parts that nevertheless don’t contribute meaning to the resulting expression.”
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/language … 05026.html
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