Syntactic blend: "out of a sudden"
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
gcohen at MST.EDU
Mon May 19 19:35:53 UTC 2008
One of my students has written to me about a possible blend, and I now share his message with
ads-l. He is correct in suspecting the example is a blend, and no, I had never come across this one before. My thanks to him for sending it along.
Gerald Cohen
[message from student]:
Hi Dr. Cohen,
I found a phrase used in a message[1] on a mailing list that might be of
interest to you. The writer used the phrase "Out of a sudden" to
characterize unexpected software behavior, which to me appears to be a blend
of "out of nowhere" and "all of a sudden".
What do you think? Is this something you've seen before?
Thanks,
David Mattli
[1] http://common-lisp.net/pipermail/cells-gtk-devel/2008-April/000532.html
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