fun with splicing
We were having our RA Staff Meeting in Marshall Hall earlier in this semester. We were on the topic of nominating someone to commend as an outstanding resident (or something like that). I wanted to nominate a girl named Emilie, but when I opened my mouth, I said “emilate.”
It was a pretty funny splice. I guess it was in part because of how much I wanted to say “nominate” and “Emilie,” but it could also be due to how it’s similar to an actual word- “eliminate.”
Nice blend! It’s not a common one, since they’re not of the same lexical category, and they’re only similar in their number of syllables and the rime of the second syllable. I guess that similarity was enough, though!
Did you have an alternate syntactic plan to say, “nominate Emilie”?
Could it also be that commend is similar to “emulate?” I commend/emulate so I will nominate her… I “emilate”…