On language: Desafirization
So with the university closed for the Great Summer Snow Day, I undertook to get a few errands done in the neighborhood. Being overcome with the urge for a coney island, I stopped in one of the local places on the way back, and I saw a construction I'd never seen before:
This sounds almost as if someone's trying to re-grammaticalize, or de-Safirize, "Eggs Benedict." Look familiar to anyone out there?
Egg Benedicts
This sounds almost as if someone's trying to re-grammaticalize, or de-Safirize, "Eggs Benedict." Look familiar to anyone out there?
posted by fev at 9:39 PM
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No, but did you happen to ask any passer bys?
Freshman writing isn't really fair game but one quiz item last week fits the category: "John Updike themes often include rite of passages."
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