Re: Game theorists hope to solve world's crises

Posted by Steve Smith on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Game-theorists-hope-to-solve-world-s-crises-tp4100321p4103685.html

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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