I went camping as a scout once. Okay, more than once, but I am only thinking of the one time right now. We were in a little valley and we pitched tents on a slope. It wasn't steep; at least while we were walking around on it, but at night everything and everyone slid to the bottom. I awoke numerous times to Jon cursing the name, "Newton" for inventing troublesome gravity.During this same trip, Jon also came up with the malapropism (but can you call it a malapropism if it's done on purpose?), knifes to substitute for nice. As in, "We got a knifes warm fire going!" I really like it, because it's so subtle, so I adopted it into my vocabulary.
Since then, me and my roommate Jared and I have come up with several other on-purpose substitute words using real words (we really like messing with English majors): Muffin meaning nothing, as in, "I tried to roll a horse, but I got muffin." And meow instead of now: "Stop talking like that right meow!"
10 comments:
your 'Rolling a horse' reference was so random, I thought it was another example of a malapropism
Only slightly but almost really confusing. I think I do that unconsciously anyways, for example i used the phrase "wait to go" instead of "way to go" when commenting on someones blog the other day, I guess that just makes me awesome.
Toni: that's why I put the link in.
Robyn: just act like it was on purpose. That's what I do.
There are some more good examples at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoonerism
I have no idea which of these your examples qualify as though. But they made me laugh.
Knives. . . I wondered why I said that.
Last night I thought of interchanging Glass and Grass.
The Grass is half full.
although mixing your L's and R's is a little racist, so maybe not.
I will strife not to be opended by this post of malapropo. sigh. . .
I substitute words like that when I am tired and my brain is totally wasted. My favorite was, "Oh! We have to go back to the house! I forgot to turn the ONION off!!" (I meant "oven.")
Camping on a slight slope and having everybody wake up each morning on the low side of the tent happened to us too on a scout camp-out. It was funny.
What did the Mexican fireman name his twins? Jose and Hose B!
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