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Although I may take issue with this kind of [Mark Mandel's] definition
of malapropism--at least, this is not how I think of a malapropism--I
have an entirely different question.<br>
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It seems [to me] that "relishing in X" is the same kind problem as
"despite of", although the distance from "in spite of" to "despite" may
be a bit closer.<br>
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But this is also different from a different kind of potential V+P,
although only one of this kind comes to mind--"look@t" as an
interjective substitute for faux imperative exclamation "look"
(="consider this"). E.g., "Lookit, here's what we decided--take it or
leave it." At some point in the past, I noticed that this expression is
commonly used by Rush Limbaugh, although I know a number of other
people who also use "look@t" exclusively where I would use "look". A
small number of people sometimes (non-exclusively) use "look here".<br>
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I don't know if it's a deform of "look at" or its own malapropism, but
it always creeps me out when people use it.<br>
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VS-)<br>
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Mark Mandel wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Arnold Zwicky <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:zwicky@stanford.edu"><zwicky@stanford.edu></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">well, there's no reason to think these *are* eggcorns. there are all
sorts of reshapings and non-standard word choices that aren't eggcorns.
these are nice examples of malapropisms, probably with contributions
from two items in each case.
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I've always understood "malapropism" to refer to a misuse of an existing
word (read now: lexical item) in place of one that bears some phonological
similarity to it. As neologisms, neither "plummaging" nor "relishing in"
fits that definition. Have we an apter term</pre>
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