tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jan 04 09:29:58 2011
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RE: fanboys
HIvqa' veqlargh.
Hamlet, p. 143:
mang: muHoSmoHbej, qaH, taHvIS neH wo'.
Hamlet, p. 208:
The colloquialism arises from the fact that the suffix -vIS ("while") is always used with the suffix -taH ("continuously"). But here the verb itself, "taH", ("continue") is identical to the mandatory -taH suffix, so the soldier hypercorrectly assumes that the verb "taH" can take its place.
jIlughHa'pu.
Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercorrection:
In linguistics, hypercorrection is defined as usage of some rule of pronunciation or grammatical prescription that many users of a language consider incorrect, but that the speaker or writer uses through misunderstanding of these rules, often combined with a desire to seem formal or educated.