Either way, "nuculer" isn't a word on its own, so it doesn't fit the definition. "nuculer" isn't a real malapropism it's just a mispronunciation/alternate pronunciation, depending on which dictionary you're looking at. Cnilep ( talk) 03:07, 11 October 2012 (UTC) Reply So far there is no reliable source saying that cross-linguistic malapropism is a recognized category of speech error or joke. Neither mentions malapropism (at least according to Google Books), but that is not surprising as they are not written in English. The sources for rynda are written in Russian and German. There is no mention of malapropism in either. The other source is a bilingual dictionary that gives the word's meaning. The Transparent Language blog (which, by the way, does not appear to be an entirely reliable source) says that the word came to Korean from English via Japanese, and that it is difficult to translate into English since it does not mean fighting. Neither of the sources cited for hwaiting! describes it as a malaprop. I don't think that either of these are actually malapropisms, though. Russian rynda "ship's bell" apparently comes from English ring the bell Korean hwaiting! comes from English fighting. Gymnophoria ( talk) 16:35, 15 October 2014 (UTC) Reply Ĭurrently the section "Cross-linguistic Malapropisms" describes two loan words. I'm amazed there's no mention of George Dubya Bush, he was a walking one-man suppository of wisdom. Thanks, Cnilep ( talk) 00:50, 7 October 2012 (UTC) Reply Australian PM Tony Abbott's "suppository of wisdom" quote is probably a better known example than the New Scientist one. Any editor making such changes is kindly asked to explain her or his choices on this talk page, or at least in edit summaries. It is also possible that the long list of examples could be spun out into a stand-alone list in a separate article (subject to Wikipedia's policies on notability, verifiability, etc.). As with everything on Wikipedia, other editors may disagree with my choices and are free to change the page, for example substituting other examples or even adding more. I am reducing the number of examples on this list to make it useful and illustrative. Per Wikipedia's Manual of Style, "Articles are intended to consist primarily of prose, though they may contain lists." Articles written in prose style, as this one is, can include a list of examples to help illustrate a point, but such lists should be discriminate, well-defined, and reasonably short.
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