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Chris -- 2018-04-11
“She was a stray that just walked into my yard one day after school, she was starving so much that you could see her ribs. She ate our left-over beef stew in like 45 seconds. I was so glad I was aloud to keep her!”
from here: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjec … ndex.shtml
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I was meditating on this one (I have a half-dozen examples of it as well as the converse, saying something “allowedâ€). The best imagery I’ve come up with would have to do with something not “aloud†having to be done quietly/under the table/ behind the scenes rather than overtly and ostensibly. So if it’s allowed it can be done out loud.
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Does that work?
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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This is a post from early on before I really got what eggcorns were.
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OK, but I think it’s got possibilities.
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Still pondering.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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At one of my neighbor’s house, the older brother of a set of younger boisterous siblings had a hand-written sign on his door which read “No kids aloud.” I probably wouldn’t consider it an eggcorn in that instance; It seemed to be a simple, unintended misspelling. A malapropism perhaps? At any rate, it was rather amusing.
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I will confess to understanding the opposite when I was in elementary school about a hundred years ago. At that time, part of each day was spent “reading aloud”. This activity consisted of children taking it in turns to read aloud part of a story while the others listened and followed along in our own books. I recall thinking at the time that each child was allowed to take a turn. I don’t think I knew the word aloud at the time, and didn’t see any connection between the reading we were allowed to do and its “out loud” nature.
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nilep wrote:
I will confess to understanding the opposite when I was in elementary school about a hundred years ago. At that time, part of each day was spent “reading aloud”. This activity consisted of children taking it in turns to read aloud part of a story while the others listened and followed along in our own books. I recall thinking at the time that each child was allowed to take a turn. I don’t think I knew the word aloud at the time, and didn’t see any connection between the reading we were allowed to do and its “out loud” nature.
Well that was an eggcorn for you then!
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