[Ads-l] Two syntactic blends

[Cohen, Gerald Leonard]

Here are two syntactic blends I've noticed within the past several months:


1) "He will let the process play its course." (spoken by Robert Costa, Moderator of

the PBS TV program Washington Week) ---- from : "...let the process play out" and

"...let the process take its course." (aided by the phonetic similarity of "play"

and "take")


2) "You're putting yourself in risk." (spoken by a TV journalist reporting on

raging rivers in California) ---- from: "You're putting yourself in danger" and

"You're putting yourself at risk."


Gerald Cohen


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