Re: Sort-of OT: getting similar expressions mixed up

<clicliclic@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1155492758.554622.100130@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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And what you have in mind seem to be cases of "semantic interference".

Good term.
Steven Pinker (in a different context) once wrote about an inability to recall information from the brain in real time -- I think this phenomenon might be an instance of that.
Wotcha reckon?

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