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- From: GE.SPM@forsythe.stanford.edu (Suzanne Mills)
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- Subject: Mangled Text (Was Re: Mangled Song Lyrics)
- Date: 2 Jan 1993 15:15:36 -0800
- Organization: Stanford University
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- Mis-hearing words being sung is one thing, but mis-reading words on
- the page is another. I have found myself doing the latter for at
- least a couple of years now. It doesn't seem to happen with books,
- by the way, but only with newspaper or magazine text. One example:
- in a post-mortem of the last US presidential campaign, I initially
- read a reference to Ross Perot's 'grass-roots movement' as
- 'glass-roots movement'. Another: some time ago a cosmetics company
- launched an ad campaign for a wrinkle cream called 'Niosome'. I
- initially read that as 'Noisome'.
-
- Is this a form of Freudian slip? Evidence of creeping senility? Or
- just that when reading cursorily the eye may sometimes go a little
- off-kilter? I would be very interested to know if anyone else out
- there has had similar experiences.
-
- Suzanne
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