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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Drug induced error in most cases I suspect.
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geezerpk wrote:
Drug induced error in most cases I suspect.
LOL!
Just a mispronunciation, I reckon.
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Somewhat aperpos:
it may be less than obvious what kind of blooper you have when you know you have one. What you preceive to be one kind could equally full well be another; what looks like a typo may actually be some sort of mindo. E.g. in the pervious sentence, is preceive a malapropistic substitution of the suffix pre- for per-, a metathetic rearrangement of the position of r (or of e) in its sylable, a blending of perceive with presume or presuppose, or two or all of the above?
( My Brain has a Mind of It’s Own )
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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