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Sometimes we have those little epiphanies in the shower.. sometimes they come from other places. This is a home for those epiphanies.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

That's very possible. This process is called "folk etymology", and your example of "playing the trump card" is folk etymology-induced semantic drift.