Cool malapropism/eggcorn

[Tom Zurinskas]

Interesting study.  At what age are the students?  Have they been taught a
phonetic system so they can write phonetically?

Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL4+
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>From: Amy West <medievalist at W-STS.COM>
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>Subject: Re: Cool malapropism/eggcorn
>Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 10:12:49 -0500
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>Perfect timing! I'm going to be hitting that section of our grammar
>book (Longman Writer's Companion) in the coming week. I've been
>taking a very prescriptive approach with my students this semester so
>that they become aware of variances between their idiolects and the
>more conservative Standard Written English that they might have
>foisted on them in academia. Please do post that to LL. I've been
>pointing out "rules" in LWC where there's little to no support (like
>restricting use of the superlative of adjs for groups of only 3 or
>more).
>
>---Amy West
>
> >  > I'm not denying that unattached "which" clauses are out there, but we
> >>  need to be careful in identifying the "real" ones and the processing
> >>  lapses.
> >
> >i've been meaning to post to the Language Log about a collection of
> >phenomena that are routinely castigated in usage manuals as involving
> >"vague pronoun reference".  among them are final non-restrictive
> >relative clauses that are intended to refer to the situation denoted
> >by a preceding VP or clause, as in
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