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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Not such a daft adaptation since an ft ending is easier to pronounce than a pt one, and ‘deftness’ can mean much the same as ‘adept’.
He’s also not a one trick mode kind of a guy, as he is as adeft at reworking a disco classic as he is on a deep, afro or electro workout.
Since I’m not that adeft at felting, I stitched one out of a felt square.
I can work great in busy environment, reliable and trustworthy, adeft at being able to follow cash distribution procedure.
And the Kremlin is adeft at keeping the population distracted with doggie treats and toys like the World Cup games, Victory Day parades, and tales of …
I am adeft at Content writing and blogging.
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I love this kind of thing. Eggcorn or not. Is it? Maybe. I definitely perceive deft there. Blendiferous in origin almost certainly, though I guess it could be taken as a phonological weakening of p to f . Eggcorn, in my judgment, if it’s established as normal, with that same perception of deft , for those who use it, especially if it replaces adept entirely.
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2021-10-22 19:35:27)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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I would call it an eggcorn. And a good one, blending and confusing the broad Germanic (“deft”) and Latinate (“adept”) streams of English into a single flow.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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