Eggcorn? Simple error?

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Tue Sep 21 23:29:30 UTC 2010


"I think this should be made a _defacto_ for all Google Accounts."


I.e. in context, the writer is clearly saying that he wants the New
Feature to be made the _default_ case: if you don't opt out, then you
have opted in, instead of the reverse.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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