Lack toast and intolerant
Making Light has (not for the first time) introduced me to a thing of Great Delight: the eggcorn, or "more or less common reshapings of words and expressions: a word or part of a word is semantically reanalyzed, and the spelling reflects the new interpretation". Worth perusing if you're inclined to chortle at references to, say, "the judicial and penile system". (See, the law isn't an ass, it's a dick.)
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'a posable thumb'!
'a dashboard stomach'!
'on the spurt of the moment'!
Heh heh heh... yes, I am likely to chortle - it's funny because it's true (at least where I work!).
Those things make me afeared!
I started inventing my own vernacular in college, because I was constantly ridiculed for mispoken common phrases. So - I started moving words around and turning nonsense into "the way I talk" to cover the fact that I'm a complete verbal idiot.
Then I see these pages and pray that I've fooled someone into just thinking me quirky.
Cunning strategy. A bit like when I heard a number of bizarre rumours about myself, also in college, and decided to start making my own up. It was very entertaining, and encouraged a sense of high disdain for others' opinion.
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