mea culpa!
I will try to remember to retopic my side-comments.
The topic strayed inside the 600 mile limit:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gEIzqoHa_dZfk5RZ-e16TJnv0BVgD9CBHLR00
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 7:21 PM, Nicholas
Thompson <[email protected]>
wrote:
And yes we have hijacked this thread.
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Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
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I also liked Glen's use of
"Convicted" as the (active/past?) form of "Conviction". It invoked
the appropriate image of _jail_ as Glen pointed out while alluding
(alliteratively?) to Convinced.
My wife is the master (mistress?) of deliberate, well-crafted
malapropisms such as this. She uses them unabashedly and without
comment... it is up to the rest of us to "catch up".
Perhaps the best (at least the first I encountered decades ago when we
met) was her use of the term "excuse closet" where "excuse clause"
would be more conventional... invoking the wonderful multiple reference
to all the things one might stuff into a "junk closet", to "hiding
behind a closet full of excuses", to having a whole pantry (closet)
well stocked with excuses.
Is there a better term than simply "malapropism"? "deliberate
malapropism" captures a little more, but it is the "mal" that I object
to... it is more that the "propism" is hijacked or co-opted in a
deliberate and clever fashion.
Carry on!
- Steve
Quoting Nicholas Thompson circa 09-12-02 04:06 PM:
Glen, I LIKED THIS. I particularly liked it, though, because of the odd
usage of convicted (for convinced). Was that a sllip of the fingers, or
perhaps you are starting a new meme?
Thanks. I do it to highlight how stupid it is to put yourself in a
mental _jail_ ... to make yourself a mental convict by being convinced
of any one thing or another.
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