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Eggcorn or Illiteracy?

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Tony Cooper

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Feb 26, 2006, 11:49:10 AM2/26/06
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Copied and pasted from soc.culture.irish and posted by a UKian from
NI:

"If you have no answers you resort to ad-homonyms!"


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R H Draney

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Feb 26, 2006, 12:26:02 PM2/26/06
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Tony Cooper filted:

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>Copied and pasted from soc.culture.irish and posted by a UKian from
>NI:
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>"If you have no answers you resort to ad-homonyms!"

Neither...I put it down to wordplay....r

R J Valentine

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Feb 26, 2006, 12:59:08 PM2/26/06
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On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 16:49:10 GMT Tony Cooper <tony_co...@earthlink.net> wrote:

Subject: Re: Eggcorn or Illiteracy?

} Copied and pasted from soc.culture.irish and posted by a UKian from
} NI:
}
} "If you have no answers you resort to ad-homonyms!"

A joke? I'd be surprised if it doesn't catch on here, where "maroon" is
close enough for government work.

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Tony Cooper

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Feb 26, 2006, 1:04:30 PM2/26/06
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On 26 Feb 2006 09:26:02 -0800, R H Draney <dado...@spamcop.net>
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I don't think so. Here are some cut-and-pastes from the same poster:

"Oh come on! There were over 5000 Garda for President Bushes visit!"

"Oh, and bye the way, the word is there are severe internal stresses
within Sinn Fein..."

Chris Waigl

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Feb 26, 2006, 2:04:46 PM2/26/06
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On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 18:04:30 GMT, Tony Cooper typed:

I entered it into the Eggcorn Database as a non-eggcorn
<http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/684/homonym/> -- with an
explanation why I don't think it is one. But this is just too
beautiful a non-eggcorn to pass over. Not uncommon by any means,
either.

Chris Waigl


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Evan Kirshenbaum

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Feb 26, 2006, 10:32:38 PM2/26/06
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Tony Cooper <tony_co...@earthlink.net> writes:

> Copied and pasted from soc.culture.irish and posted by a UKian from
> NI:
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> "If you have no answers you resort to ad-homonyms!"

I'd think that something like "AmeriKKKa" would be an ad-homonym: an
intentional misspelling of someone's name in such a way as to cast
aspersions on their character and thereby belittle their argument.

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R J Valentine

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Feb 27, 2006, 9:52:13 AM2/27/06
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On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 19:32:38 -0800 Evan Kirshenbaum <kirsh...@hpl.hp.com> wrote:

} Tony Cooper <tony_co...@earthlink.net> writes:
}
}> Copied and pasted from soc.culture.irish and posted by a UKian from
}> NI:
}>
}> "If you have no answers you resort to ad-homonyms!"
}
} I'd think that something like "AmeriKKKa" would be an ad-homonym: an
} intentional misspelling of someone's name in such a way as to cast
} aspersions on their character and thereby belittle their argument.

How about if you cast dispersions? Would that be an ad-homonym?

But I waxed allusional.

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