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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Just heard this one on the BBC: “Israel is at a crucial junction”.
Google example:
“Iraq War at Crucial Junction on Fifth Anniversary”
http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/ … 1f4c5c94a1
An interesting transposition of time and space. I suppose that when at a “critical juncture”, one could also be metaphorically “at a crossroad”, or “at a junction”.
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It’s a malapropism, for sure. But to be an eggcorn, it’s also supposed to have a significant shift of the semantic imagery (while adding up to something reasonably equivalent overall). I don’t see the substitution of the nominalizing suffix ure for the nominalizing suffix ion as a very big shift of the imagery.
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Does that make sense, wayner? (Or the rest of you all?)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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