[lit-ideas] My Malaprop, Your Spoonerism
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 13:09:31 EST
P. A. Stone made a couple of questions.
In a message dated 3/4/2009 6:23:48 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
palma@xxxxxxxx writes:
>In fact many of those lexically are called spoonerisms
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I would start by marking that Spooner _existed_.
As Geary also notes: "They indicate different mental states of the subject:
the utterer of a spoonerism is an idiot; the utterer of a malaprop is an
_ignorant_ *idiot_ess_*"
Cheers,
JL
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