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alexpgp ([personal profile] alexpgp) wrote2009-12-10 07:34 am

Early morning thoughts...

Yeah, I know... it's not really early morning.

Bear with me.

The LJ notification system appears to have finally been fixed. Last night, I finally got a bunch of notifications from about two days ago. Just over the past hour, things appear to have caught up to "real time."

Overnight, it occurred to me that Fingerfehler has a plausible eggcorn, "finger failure." This, in turn, led me to conclude that an eggcorn may be a subset of mondegreen, which led me to conclude I am beginning to speak an entirely different language.

No time to wonder about that now, though. I hope to have retained enough English to finish the quality document by this afternoon. More work has already been dropped over the transom.

Cheers...

[identity profile] agirlnamedluna.livejournal.com 2009-12-10 03:01 pm (UTC)(link)
What's an eggcorn?

I'm currently in the "I have to look up every word" phase of my project. Board of Directors composition in English is just not my thing! It went much smoother in Dutch.

[identity profile] alexpgp.livejournal.com 2009-12-10 06:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Eggcorn! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn)

Cheers...

[identity profile] agirlnamedluna.livejournal.com 2009-12-10 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Ooh makes sense, thanks :)

[identity profile] furzicle.livejournal.com 2009-12-11 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
This is what I like. Today I have learned two new words: mondegreen and soramimi. I suggest anyone who is interested check wikipedia for explanations on those words.

[identity profile] alexpgp.livejournal.com 2009-12-11 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
Aha. Now I have something to discuss during breaks should I ever get to work with Japanese astronauts.

アホな放尿犯!

Cheers...