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I heard this again last night in a telephone conversation and in light of JonW’s recent “42 pages of unanswered posts” thought it worth a revisit. “High insight” does have an independent though fairly limited existence and I suspect that if I were after such a term I’d opt for “deep insight”, which ought to mean something quite different but, like slow up/slow down, doesn’t.
Anyway, in all the dialects I hear on a regular basis “high insight” spoken at the trot sounds much like “hindsight” and, of course, vice versa. And “high insight” is an intelligent, eggcornish reworking of what must be, for some, a less familiar word…

While clearly with the benefit of high insight, we made mistakes in our lending and mortgage banking activities, so did most major industry players and our …
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With the benefit of highinsight you think I should have known where this was going, but full marks to director David Fincher, who keeps you guessing until …
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In high insight I don’t know if it was such a good idea. The marshmallow layer kept shifting the top cake and before I knew it my cake was 1/2 an inch off …
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How many times can you recall an event in your life that in high insight the solution was so easy, but at the time it was so hard? Why is it hard? ...
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Highinsight is better than foreignsight.

It’s an odd fact that the vertical dimension admits of confusion in ways that the horizontal dimensions (intrinsically, one would think, more prone to confusion) do not. You don’t get left and right, or forward and back, or north and south, winding up as synonyms or used to modify each other like you do terms implying up and down or deep and high.

Here are a couple of paragraphs from something I’m working on. All the odd words and phrases are attested. (“Mondegrenosity” was a conscious coinage, and the mondegreens in that paragraph, as the wording suggests, were misbegotten by speech-recognition software rather than by people. All the others, including the up/down/height/depth/etc. phrases, are, as nearly as I or my correspondents could tell, either standard for the speakers/writers or intended as something normal, not as something funny. Doubtless there are some eggcorns in there that aren’t listed on the site yet …)

…Speech-reckonition software simularly takes mondegrenosity to new heights of depth. When 10 issues become tennis shoes, and interrogatories are in erotic Tories, or when someone who Saudi doctor is diagnosed with my true love pro laps and accordingly sent to the hospital in an amulets, the art of recognition has certainly been soared to newer and deeper heights

[this guy] takes grugs, and this last time he overdoped and went into a really deep high, had a sort of ’cedure and fell on the floor, and went into a comma. For all his roommate knew, he was having a grandmaw seizure, or a close procsimile thereof,

[I was] languashing in the dull drums. Every day I’d think it couldn’t get worse, and then by the end of the day I’d sink to new heights , and plumb the worst heights of despair. My bouts with antidepressance got worse and worst until I finally hit Bach Rodham. Right at that high ebb, when my peak of lowness hit, I felt like my life was falling apart at the bits and I was on the ring of disaster, like todally at the edge of my rope, all convinced that I was doomed for, and just hanging on by the skin of my fingernails. … [I needed to stop] trying to reach for pinnacles beyond my depth.

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Or we can be consistent and combine Heinz sight with Hindzeit to make heinzeit, for which there is first perp-son testimony available. About 12 real hits.

I too was surrounded by grim looking men in dirty clothes who demanded money. Later, in heinzeit, I now understand that they were just ordinary Havana guys, hanging out in the street, and that they just wanted to socialize but didn’t speak any english :-)
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Ah… In heinzeit, maybe it was a little strange for me to think a wheelchair bound person could build a wheelchair ramp.
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I used to think that hindsight was actually a German word, spelled something like “heinzeit,” that, loosely translated, meant “to reconsider.” In heinzeit, I was an idiot.
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