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[changeling]

This Is the most disturbing thing I've ever seen. I just can't get it out of my head...

I'm typing up the script I used for Extended Fiction, and I've already noticed two glaring errors. One is a homonym ("here" instead of "hear"), and the other is a similar yet completely different word - the kind of mistake you make in your speech when drunk: I wrote "perspective" instead of "perceptive". I can't believe no one mentioned that out of my entire fiction class!

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[fin.livejournal.com]

Now we know why Leonard Nimoy's musical career never took off...

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

I never pictured the full wrongness that was his music career until this, though...

That IS disturbing.

[jenni-the-odd.livejournal.com]

I think I am going to cry.

Re: That IS disturbing.

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

It's all Neil Gaiman's fault. He linked to it through his blogger.

It's one of those "pluck out your eye if it offends you" moments.

[asiina.livejournal.com]

how strange, I actually saw this a few days ago at Anime club. Small world.

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

'tis indeed.

O.O Bloody disturbing clip, though.

[gadge.livejournal.com]

I would have mentioned it. I should have been in your class.

Instead, I have all this free time, to do as I please... oh. Wait.

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

Yeh, I think I'm doing that next year. I'm kinda burned out on uni - can't muster the enthusiasm any more.

[diji.livejournal.com]

Its called a malapropism. Its usually the kind of thing that's an error, or there for comedic effect. Maybe the class thought it was part of the script. A good example of what the heck I am talking about...

"If I know Mary, she'll invite us right over for tea and strumpets." -- Lloyd Christmas (Jim Carrey), Dumb and Dumber

The intended word was, of course, crumpet, but the substitution of another similar sounding word in its place makes that all funnier (look up what a Strumpet is...).

Hope this helps.

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

I do know what a strumpet is. :P

Hey, I was in "My Fair Lady" in school. I would have learnt all those terms even if I didn't already know them. *grins*

I've never come across the definition malapropism before, so thanks. They're something I do semi-regularly in my speech at least, although usually not as amusing as the Dumb & Dumber example above. Usually they're closer to the one mentioned.

And within context, the word doesn't sound intentionally wrong. Still, I would think that sort of mistake (perspective/perceptive) is easy to not notice simply because the words (and particularly the beginning and end of the words) are so similar. Humans tend to read by looking at the pattern the letters make rather than sounding out the word in their head all the time.

*smiles* Not meaning to lecture, it's just something I find interesting.

[diji.livejournal.com]

You'd be suprised how many people don't know what a strumpet is....

And nevermind the lecture... I enjoy a good lecture.

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

I'm a terrible lecturer... I don't mean to be, but I get excited about things and babble on about it for twenty minutes and not noticed the glazed eyes of my friends... *grins*