some kind of malaprop

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 8/29/07, Arnold M. Zwicky <zwicky at csli.stanford.edu> wrote:
>
> from elizabeth daingerfield zwicky, a pointer to
>
>    http://scribbit.blogspot.com/2007/08/who-says-i-have-no-sense-of-
> humor.html
>
> which contains the line
>
> > Of course they asked me this while I was simultaneously rolling out
> > a pizza crust, emptying the dishwasher, bathing a child and talking
> > on the phone to a stupid telemarketer who only understood the word
> > "no" when accompanied by explicatives.

Goes along with the shouted and deleted explicatives previously found
by Wilson and Arnold...

http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/517/explicative/
http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0508B&L=ADS-L&P=R5370


--Ben Zimmer

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