Spill chuckers are a great cause of malapropisms - they suggest
correct spelling for the wrong words and the aforementioned dimbots
click the 'change' button dutifully. Thus I've had Kosovo overrun by
unnecessary macaques (massacres) and many not quite so weird efforts.
The offender usually claims that, 'it doesn't matter does it? You
knew what I MEANT", as if I'm being unnecessarily difficult. Frankly
I preferred the genuinely literacy challenged group I taught this
year. At least they were happy to acknowledge that they had a problem.
incidentally, have we revisited every standard theme and topic in the
last week except Vegemite and murkin politiks?
AndrewF
On 13/12/2005, at 3:39 PM, Walt Wayman wrote:
> I've started a collection of malaprops. These are just the
> beginning, all found in the last 10 days or so in internet posts.
> None here, of course.
>
> ...cut off your nose despite your face...
> ...first one out of the shoot...
> ...taken for granite...
> ...would reek havoc...
>
> I'm looking forward to many more, maybe even one or two here. :-)
>
> Walt
>
> --
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> Edward Weston
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