eggcorn?

[Laurence Horn]

At 3:03 PM -0400 8/22/07, sagehen wrote:
>Does the substitution of "as far as" for  "as for" qualify as an eggcorn?

Maybe a truncation of "as far as X is concerned", or (to anticipate
Jerry) a blend of this with "as for"?

LH

>Or is "as far as," left hanging,  (which, I'd guess, probably now far
>outnumbers instances in which it is completed) now simply an accepted
>idiom?  I should know better, after all these years, than  to keep waiting
>for the other shoe to drop after  "as far as," but it still makes me
>uneasy.  I was somewhat startled by hearing Geoff Nunberg use this, talking
>about political speech  on Terry Gross's program today.
>AM
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