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Chris -- 2025-05-10
This was reported early on here as post #571. In looking at examples on the Internet I was struck by (1) a fair number coming from Asia, e.g.
Vonn’s injury still playing on her mind | Taiwan News | 2010 … https://www.taiwannews.com.tw › news Jan 4, 2010 —
Vonn’s injury still playing on her mind. With six weeks until her first race at the Vancouver Olympics, Lindsey Vonn is trying to stop worrying
and (2) how many come from the world of sports , e.g. above and
With a potential move to Barca on the cards, Liverpool supporters feared that was playing on his mind. However, after his header against …
The first fact may be relevant if r/l confusion is a factor, and the second obviously brings the ideas associated with play into prominence. Other eggcornish motivations may be active in just about any other context as well, of course: playing things out, or over and over, in your mind, playing tricks on your mind or your mind playing tricks on you, playing with ideas in your mind and other kinds of less purposeful mind play, etc. And it’s so nearly standard that preying on your mind may have no field of play in many people’s minds anymore.
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2021-05-25 10:26:30)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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