Bloom of style
A style bloom is used to describe formulations that appear unintentionally funny due to a mistake in the choice of words or word order, due to slip of the tongue or ambiguity . Many alleged style blossoms are fantasy products or rather unsuccessful neologisms .
A special form of the style flowers are catheter flowers .
Examples
- Wrong choice of words (lexical error) - see also children's mouth :
- "Before the man threw his fishing rod into the lake, he tied a big mutt to the hook." (Instead of bait )
- "He is a real conifer" (instead of a luminary )
- "Friendly mines at the beginning of the collective bargaining round" (instead of face )
- Bruno Labbadia : "You don't have to highly sterilize that now" (instead of stylizing)
- "During the war he was on the balcony" actually: "... he was in the Balkans"
- Metaphors combined in a nonsensical manner: “As pioneering as the American path was able to shape itself in this regard, the European path was just as eclectic. The latter is repeatedly at a crossroads. "
- Incorrect sentence reference: "When my mother does a lot of laundry, we help her by putting it in a basket, carrying it in the attic and hanging it up."
- Incorrect reference to the content: "For such lazy excuses you have to look for a dumber one, but you will hardly find one."
- Ambiguity ( ambiguity ): "Unfortunately, I can't get a cat because my mother has a bird."
- Upper / lower case is missing in the pronunciation: "They stood on the slopes and p isten ..." (1959, sports reporter Heinz Maegerlein )
- Translation errors / German as a foreign language: “We all got cold.” Machine translation can also lead to blooms.
- A wrong friend - leads to a wrong, ambiguous or crooked translation.
- Intention: "It would work, but it won't". ( Karl Valentin ) or “Something has to happen, but nothing can happen.” (1994, Theo Waigel ) - see pun
See also
literature
- Helmut Seiffert : Even a murder is a piece of life - The little book of language accidents , CH Beck, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-406-45933-1
Web links
Wiktionary: Stilblüte - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
- Translationfallen.de - Stilblüten
- SPIEGEL columnist Bastian Sick presents and comments on style flowers sent in by readers
- Double gemoppel (pleonasms) & other style flowers , collection by Manfred Gärtner
swell
- ↑ Duden | Style flower | Spelling, meaning, definition. Retrieved February 11, 2019 .
- ↑ Duden | Catheter flower | Spelling, meaning, definition. Retrieved February 11, 2019 .
- ↑ cf. From the foreword of the Guttenberg "doctoral thesis"