Overgeneralization vs Hypercorrection - What's the difference?
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(usually, uncountable) The act of overgeneralizing.
* {{quote-news, year=1995, date=July 7, author=Gary Houston, title=Everything's Unique, work=Chicago Reader
, passage="George Orwell put the easy use of words like 'unique' under the headings of 'pretentious diction' and overgeneralization . }}
* {{quote-news, year=1988, date=November 11, author=Andrew Goodwin, title=Reading: The Cultural Crash of '89, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=Fortunately for all of us, the rhetoric of both cultural pessimism and postmodernism contains more than its fair share of exaggeration and overgeneralization . }}
(countable) An instance of overgeneralizing.
*{{quote-journal, 2000, date=January 28, Keith Kloor, RESTORATION ECOLOGY:Returning America's Forests to Their 'Natural' Roots, Science
, passage=It's an overgeneralization to say that everywhere you look is the hand of man in the presettlement era," says Thomas Swetnam, a fire ecologist at the University of Arizona in Tucson. }}
(linguistics) The use of a nonstandard form due to a belief that it is more formal or more correct than the corresponding standard form.
(linguistics) A nonstandard form so used.
As nouns the difference between overgeneralization and hypercorrection
is that overgeneralization is (usually|uncountable) the act of overgeneralizing while hypercorrection is (linguistics) the use of a nonstandard form due to a belief that it is more formal or more correct than the corresponding standard form.overgeneralization
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