Subject: Not an eggcorn--just a mistake?

[Charles Doyle]

I wish I could accept (conscious) credit for such a learned, Latinate backformation--or is it a frontformation? However, it was just bad keyboarding and poor proofreading . . . .

--Charlie
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>Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 12:54:24 -0400
>From: "Mark A. Mandel" <mamandel at LDC.UPENN.EDU>
>Subject: Subject: Not an eggcorn--just a mistake?
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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>Charles Doyle <cdoyle at UGA.EDU> sez:
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>Last night on MTV's "Room Raiders" (I know, I need to get a life!), a participant entered an extremely messy room, which he twice referred to as having been "thrashed."  I assume he meant "trashed," but he (unconsciously) introducted a more particular image of how the room got that way.

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>Like "introducted"? or no, wait, that's more like "administrate". :-) A back
>form.
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>-- Mark

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