Eggcorn or Illiteracy?
Tony Cooper
NI:
"If you have no answers you resort to ad-homonyms!"
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Tony Cooper
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R H Draney
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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
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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rjv
Tony Cooper
wrote:
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
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
> 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.
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R J Valentine
} 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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rjv