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- From: jzimm@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Joann Zimmerman)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
- Subject: Re: Mangled Text (Was Re: Mangled Song Lyrics)
- Message-ID: <86091@ut-emx.uucp>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 20:04:11 GMT
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- References: <1i57moINNnhh@morrow.stanford.edu>
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- In article <1i57moINNnhh@morrow.stanford.edu> Suzanne Mills,
- GE.SPM@forsythe.stanford.edu writes:
- >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.
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- All the time. There's no knowing when my mind (or at least the short
- circuit between my eyes and my brain) will strike (or is that actually go
- on strike?). I call the syndrome "mislexia," for an obvious resemblance.
- A sort of reverse, uttering Freudian slips of a non-sexual nature, I many
- years ago dubbed "Fraudian slips".
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- "They like sitting around reading all the books there are. And then they
- love arguing about them. Some of those arguments go on for millenium
- after millenium. It just seems to keep them young, for some reason,
- arguing about books." -- Julian Barnes
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- Joann Zimmerman (jzimm@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu)
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