Oops! How’s That Again? Roger Rosenblatt It’s very natural to commit mistakes . Why the examples in essay are given only of great or big persons? It’s so because the tongue slips are not only done by normal people but also done even by great or big persons of higher status. Types of Tongue Slips: i) Mistranslation: mistake in translation ii) Spoonerism” The transposition / substitution of sounds to each other: accidental verbal error: an accidental transposition of initial consonant sounds or parts of words, especially one that has an amusing result, for example, “half-warmed fish” for “half-formed wish”] iii) Bloopers: Public blunder; spoken wrong in radio, press, etc. iv) Faux pas: tactless mistake Why do we laugh? i) To discover the hidden motive of the speaker. ii) Relief by a change. Into what groups has
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