Reader's Digest 5月号の特集記事 'Your Mom Said What?' の副題に "Does your mother have a habit of saying things she shouldn't?..." とあり、笑わせる例が沢山ある記事でした。記事の一部を抜粋します。
People always laugh when I tell them stories about my family's silver tongues, but they invariably have their own tales. So we at RD decided to collect readers' favorite stories. Some of them are accidental zingers, like my mom's. Others are language mix-ups that produce a sort of sweet word salad. Think of them all as a tribute to helpful moms everywhere--a verbal Mother's Day gift! We even gave them a name: mamapropisms, after the inimitable literary character Mrs. Malaprop. Come to think of it, she was probably a mother too.
Mrs. Malapropは可笑しな言葉の誤用が多く、それから "malapropism"（12/6/2007に取り上げました。）と云う言葉が生まれました。それをもじった "mamapropisms" とは傑作な造語ですね。
People always laugh when I tell them stories about my family's silver tongues, but they invariably have their own tales. So we at RD decided to collect readers' favorite stories. Some of them are accidental zingers, like my mom's. Others are language mix-ups that produce a sort of sweet word salad. Think of them all as a tribute to helpful moms everywhere--a verbal Mother's Day gift! We even gave them a name: mamapropisms, after the inimitable literary character Mrs. Malaprop. Come to think of it, she was probably a mother too.
Mrs. Malapropは可笑しな言葉の誤用が多く、それから "malapropism"（12/6/2007に取り上げました。）と云う言葉が生まれました。それをもじった "mamapropisms" とは傑作な造語ですね。
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