Slip of the tongue

[Jeneral2885]

In other news, there was a slip of the tongue in a press question:

Jay, just to follow up, how did Obama -- excuse me, Osama bin Laden resist if he didn’t -- if he didn’t have his hand on a gun, how was he resisting?

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/05/03/press-briefing-press-secretary-jay-carney-532011

[ZombieHorde]

1. The names are similar; mistakes happen. nt

[CBGLuthier]

2. I have done it myself twice this week

It is embarrassing so I try to just call him Bin Laden to avoid it. I will excuse all verbal slips. But not chryon and message board typos. That's just people too lazy to proofread.

[Keith Bee]

4. Same here

[woo me with science]

3. I keep misreading "Osama" for "Obama" in posts here.

It is always momentarily alarming.

[Igel]

5. People seriously don't understand dysfluencies.

The timing of a true dysfluency is radically different from something that's a planned "accident." It's like stuttering--it's hard to actually pull off a fake stutter that a simple oscilloscope trace couldn't show was fake.

The *frequency* of the words involved matter. Priming effects matter, so the speaker's context matters. What is going to occur within a few syllables after the planned word matters.

Instead, because it suits their immediate purpose, they ignore timing, context, frequencies, the phonetic planning that's taking place, and all the neural-net "sciency" stuff and become the functional equivalent of geocentric flat-earthers. The most important thing is the reader's context: Everything else in the universe revolves around the reader.