Tongue of the slip
There may be many
a 'slip between the tongue and the lip' sorry “between the cup and
the lip”, but all are not same.
For example there
area few categorizations like
1. Spoonerism
2. Malapropism
3. Freudian Slip
1.Spoonerism:
MEANING:
The transposition of (usually) the initial sounds
of words producing a humorous result. For example:
"It is now kisstomary to cuss the bride." (Spooner while officiating at a wedding)
"Is the bean dizzy?" (Spooner questioning the secretary of his dean)
"It is now kisstomary to cuss the bride." (Spooner while officiating at a wedding)
"Is the bean dizzy?" (Spooner questioning the secretary of his dean)
2.
Malapropism
MEANING:
The humorous misuse of a word by confusing it with
a similar-sounding word.
For example, "pineapple of perfection" for "pinnacle of perfection".
For example, "pineapple of perfection" for "pinnacle of perfection".
Usage:
"Mayor Thomas Menino is sometimes made fun of for his
malapropisms; He once said the city's parking shortage was 'an
Alcatraz*
around my neck' (instead
of Albatross around my
neck)."
3. Freudian
Slip:
MEANING:
An error that reveals someone's subconscious
mind.
For example, "I wish you were her" instead of "I wish you were here."
For example, "I wish you were her" instead of "I wish you were here."
USAGE:
"The
Freudian slip is invoked to explain some strange and embarrassing
behavior. 'Nice to beat you,' smiles a woman when she meets the
ex-girlfriend of her husband."
(Courtesy:wordsmith.org)
- "Normal speech contains a large
number of such slips, though these mostly pass unnoticed. The
errors fall into patterns, and it is possible to draw conclusions
from them about the underlying mechanisms involved. They can be
divided into (1) Selection errors, where a wrong item has
been chosen, usually a lexical item, as with tomorrow instead
of today in That's all for tomorrow. (2) Assemblage
errors, where the correct items have been selected, but they
have been assembled in the wrong order, as in holed and sealed
for 'soled and healed.'"
(Jean Aitchison, "Slip of the Tongue." The Oxford Companion to the English Language, 1992)
- "Most everyday slips of the
tongue . . . are often simply the result of a sound being
carried over from one word to the next, as in black bloxes
(for 'black boxes'), or a sound used in one word in anticipation of
its occurrence in the next word, as in noman numeral (for
'roman numeral'), or a tup of tea ('cup'), or the most
highly played player ('paid'). The last example is close to the
reversal type of slip, illustrated by shu flots, which may
not make you beel fetter if you're suffering from a stick
neff, and it's always better to loop before you leak. The
last two examples involve the interchange of word-final sounds and
are much less common than word-initial slips."
(George Yule, The Study of Language. Cambridge Univ. Press, 2010)
- "[I]t is possible to make
predictions about the form tongue slips are likely to take
when they occur. Given the intended sentence 'The car missed the
bike / but hit the wall' (where / marks an
intonation/rhythm boundary, and the strongly stressed words are
italicized), the likely slips are going to include bar for
car or wit for hit. Most unlikely would be har
for car (showing the influence of a less prominent word in
the second tone unit) or lit for hit (showing a final
consonant replacing an initial one)."
(David Crystal, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language, 3rd ed. Cambridge Univ. Press, 2010
- "If a slip of the tongue
that turns what the speaker intended to say into its opposite is
made by one of the adversaries in a serious, argument it immediately
puts him at a disadvantage, and his opponent seldom wastes any time
in exploiting the advantage for his own ends."
(Sigmund Freud, The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (1901), trans. by Anthea Bell. Penguin, 2002)
- The Lighter Side of Tongue
Slips
Jerry: For my murinal, I was inspired by the death of my grandma.Tom: You said murinal!
[Everyone laughs]Jerry: No, I said Mural
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