The "Secret" Messiahship

A. Unabashed Pacifist:

A just peace can never create as much injustice as a “just war” does.

B. Unabashed Christian:

Holy One,

Our words fail to capture our experience of you.
Your Word captures us.
Our words cannot describe the influence you have on our lives.
Your Word describes our potential.
Our words become idols that then turn to ashes.
Your Word is true and leads us to abundant life.
Our words are flexible and deceptive.
Your Word is a trustworthy guide for our way.
Amen

C. Un-quoting Jesus:

“Don’t ask, don’t tell.”

[Not the way Mark recorded His “secret” messiahship.]

D. Blog: Word of the Week -- Bloodgeon as Eggcorn

In linguistics, an eggcorn is an idiosyncratic substitution of a word or phrase for a word or words that sound similar or identical in the speaker's dialect. The new phrase introduces a meaning that is different from the original, but plausible in the same context ("old-timers' disease" for "Alzheimer's disease"). This is as opposed to a malapropism, where the substitution creates a nonsensical phrase. Classical malapropisms generally derive their comic effect from the fault of the user, whilst eggcorns are errors that exhibit creativity or logic. Eggcorns often involve replacing an unfamiliar, archaic, or obscure word with a more common or modern word ("baited breath" for "bated breath").
The term "eggcorn" was coined by Geoffrey Pullum in September 2003, in response to an article by Mark Liberman on the website Language Log, a blog for linguists. Liberman discussed the case of a woman who substitutes the phrase egg corn for the word acorn, arguing that the precise phenomenon lacked a name; Pullum suggested using "eggcorn" itself.

[Thank you, Wikipedia]

bludgeon » bloodgeon
Classification: English
Spotted in the wild:
§ On Sunday morning (2:30am), a mexican woman and her 19 year old daughter got bloodgeoned to death here in Fremont. (Livejournal post, 2 Feb, 2004)
§ Democracy is the bloodgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people. (reader comment, accessed Jan 4, 2009)
§ There are waaay too many games out there with ‘rap’ gangster types on it or games that encourage people to bloodgeon their friends to death with bats or whatever. (Forza2 motorsport forum, July 5, 2007)
§ My first day saw the brutal task of bloodgeoning a mouse to death to feed a jaguarundi, and my eyes were the first to behold the 5 hour old baby Spider Monkey. (Blog post, June 07, 2007)
Analyzed or reported by:
§ Pat Schwieterman (in the Eggcorn forums)

A bloodthirsty eggcorn. The origin of bludgeon is not well understood. AHD4 laconically states “[Origin unknown.]”, and the OED offers several lines of inquiry — or speculation:
[Not found before the 18th c.: origin unknown.Blogon (with g = j) is quoted by Dr. Whitley Stokes from the Cornish drama Origo Mundi (? 14th c.), but its relation to the English is uncertain. Other Celtic etymologies sometimes proposed are on many grounds untenable. A Du. vb. bludsen to bruise, has also been compared; and it has been suggested that the word is of cant origin, connected with blood.]
It is therefore possible — though not very likely — that users of the eggcorn are even going back to the word origin.

[Thank you, Eggcorn Database.]