22 Sep
2010
22 Sep
'10
5:05 p.m.
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 04:51:07PM -0700, Fred Cisin wrote:
*groan*
*g*
Well, Monegreens apply to mis-heard song lyrics. An eggcorn is
somewhat different, though can be similar.
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2633 "Eggcorn" makes the OED.
> In 30
years of college "professorship", I have seen obvious changes in
> college students. It used to be that I could start my OS class with
> "DOS est omnis divisa in partes tres"
On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Diane Bruce wrote:
That was a terrible pun you sneaky man.
My
"ViaDisk?" and
"DOS boot" lectures were worse. I translated
it fine with my rusty Latin, but it took me a while to
catch the bad pun.
In the first semester that I started my lecture with that, I
missed it
also! You have seen
the eggcorn database I hope?
http://eggcorns.lascribe.net
I hadn't. Thank you. That's a very nice collection of Mondegreens! Many of those add substantial additional information
content to the
phrases that they replace.
Well. When we have forgotten the original rationale for a term, a
new construction that seems to fit often arises.
But I am still amused by youthamism for euphemism.
Perhaps we have strayed way too far off topic.
- Diane
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