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Didj'all see this article Anu linked to in AWADmail Issue 215? web page It's pretty good. I love this: The conflict arises because linguists champion scientific description of language while the grammar police want to save civilization from decline.
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If they want to save civilization from decline they should be directing their attention to things that really matter; things like basketball. Harrumph!®
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Some of that sounds familiar. It is all but too late to rescue English from the DOC but at least there is basketball, replete with role models. 
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I like eggcorns. My former boss had the bad habit of calling any topic he didn't wish to discuss a "mute point."
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So there is at least one other individual who says that; incredible! Was thinking (or perhaps hoping) it was unique, from the same source that brought us "manneurism". [This term was defined by Aramis as 'a burst artery in one's personality'.] Is that what eggcorns are, or is that a model term?
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>So there is at least one other individual who says that; incredible!
if you're referring to "mute point"s, I'm afraid they're all too often voiced.
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Well,that sounds conveniently ambiguous. Not an 'eggcorn', but here is a weatherman gem from this morning: Quote:
"Once we get to our peak temperature of the day, we'll start to cool down."
Maybe that was from the textbook Meteorology Duhs. [Just wanted to share.]
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Quote:
"Once we get to our peak temperature of the day, we'll start to cool down."
And what's the problem with it?
Scenario A)
Temperature rises slowly till 10:30AM when a cold front comes through causing a decrease in the temperature.
Scenario 2)
Temperature rises slowly till 2:30PM at which time it levels off and remains at the high for the day till 7:00PM when it starts to cool off.
I submit that your weatherman quote applies only to the first scenario.
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Quote:
Quote:
"Once we get to our peak temperature of the day, we'll start to cool down."
And what's the problem with it?
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I submit that your weatherman quote applies only to the first scenario.
Even if you're going to let a peak be a plateau and "once" mean "any time after" instead of "as soon as", I think the only alternative to this forecast is for it to stay exactly the same temperature until midnight - daytime temperature and temperature of the day aren't equivalent to me.
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Well since it was a real weather report, science fiction was not given consideration at the time. Some of those Jules Verne concepts did become reality after all. 
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