Sunday, May 8, 2011

Mixing Up "Osama" And "Obama"

Rebecca Greenfield spoke to linguist Mark Liberman about why the verbal gaffe is so common: The syntactic category rule means that when two words are confused for one another the "target" (the word replaced) and the substituting word are almost...

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/andrewsullivan/rApM/~3/QP94FU4-5Uw/mixing-up-osama-and-obama.html

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