Meaning of malapropism In English

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Examples of malapropism

  • In this way, we are losing verbal harmonies and comedy as surely as we are losing refinements of meaning through the spread of malapropisms.

  • Some of them even resisted it when the "critique" went to the extreme of absurdity and malapropism.

  • It is however in the realm of informal discourse that all types of ludic word-forming - from malapropisms to homonymic puns - thrive most richly.

  • Last, we look at how often detection of a malapropism led to correction of the error.

  • The malapropism-insertion rate of one word in 200 was an arbitrary choice that seemed "sparse enough" to prevent the malapropisms from interacting with one another.

  • The result, especially in the early chapters, is a text littered with an embrassingly large number of stylistic infelicities, orthographic mistakes and occasional malapropisms.

  • Errors (17) and (18) can be interpreted as malapropisms.

  • The word henhouse was also suspected of being a malapropism, but had no spelling variations.

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Managing Your Emotions

  • What makes me angry?

  • Mostly,l hate when someone tries to make someone else feel bad.

  • I have to admit that once, when l was actually called names.

  • l regretted doing this afterwards, but not full heartedly because l think l was provoked in that situation.

  • The most postive way of dealing with anger is talking about the problem.

  • l talk to someone who listens, or l'll write my thoughts down on paper.

  • Learning how to deal with anger as you're growing up is so important.

  • When you're younger, you might yell,or cry when you're angry, but as you get older, you're expected to handle your emotions much better.

  • Learning to control your emotion now will prevent you from doing something that you'll regret later on in life!

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