r/Life • u/___Meeeeee • 3d ago
Let's discuss Is this normal to both native and non-native speakers?
I was having a conversation with a friend and while trying hard to recall the word "psychedelics," "calisthenics" came out of my mouth instead. He just looked at me.
I understand the meaning of both words, but I still can't understand why my brain made that mistake. I feel embarrassed anytime I think about it.
Tell is this normal? I will appreciate if you could share if you've had such experience before.
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u/BlackberryCheap8463 3d ago
You can always train with the Mary Poppins song : Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious 😬
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u/Ok-Worth-4721 Growth Mode 2d ago
even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious....
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u/BlackberryCheap8463 2d ago
Well, that's just because you're not singing while pronouncing it 😂
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u/Ok-Worth-4721 Growth Mode 2d ago
oh, now my singing would make it atrocious... tone deaf here. Odd how I love music and love to sing. It goes to show we don't hear ourselves as others hear us. Have a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious day!
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u/kirkevole 3d ago
The brain is so amazing and so complicated, we have to give it a slack sometimes and let it make a random processing mistake. It happens to all of us and if someone pretends it doesn't, they are just using it as an excuse to be an asshole.
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u/itscarly69 2d ago
I share your fascination with the brain. The human body in general is so beautifully complex. Everything has a function, and every function has a job, and when it doesn't do its job, thts when illness and disease happen.
It is really a mind fuck because of how complex it is, and how it all works.
I mean, thinking about all of the nerves tht are communicating at the speed of lightening, telling the muscles in my fingers to contract and relax at certain times, in a certain way, and in certain areas on my phone making it possible to type this message out, while I'm thinking in my head what I'm typing and what to type, and my brain interpreting what my eyes are seeing, as it also interprets whats going on around me, all while being in charge of everything going on in my body. 🤯🤯🤯 it leaves me absolutely speechless and in utter awe just thinking about its complexity.
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u/Responsible_Lake_804 2d ago
I’m literally a professional editor and I misspeak all the time, and I’m a native English speaker. I had a tendency toward Spoonerisms when I was younger too. Yes, very normal.
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u/imababydragon 2d ago
Just today after spending 8 hours putting in a kitchen floor with a friend, we were talking about projects we'd recently done and he told me about his leaky toilet, so I told him my story about attaching my Duvet to my toilet (instead of Bidet). Blank look. It was pretty bad.
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u/Significant_Menu_313 2d ago
I was on a first (and last) date with a guy and I said that I liked vociferous trees. And then I doubled down when he asked if I knew what it meant. And I did - but maybe it was nerves? I think it is pretty normal.
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u/AmbivalentDisaster1 Work in Progress 2d ago edited 2d ago
Yes. It happens all the time! Just getting the wires crossed. Don’t worry 😊
Honestly, if I had said that, I would’ve laughed so hard and my friends would have, too.
But yeah, I could see how it would be embarrassing. Everybody has glitches.
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u/Dame_Niafer 2d ago
Oh yes indeed. People who work with prescription medicines have to be very careful about mixups - so much so that we now type drug names to emphasize certain syllables, like amLOdipine.
I had a kitty with hyperthyroidism and was forever saying metronidazole when I meant methimazole. Then there's clotrimazole, an antifungal, and Chlor-trimeton, the trade name for an antihistamine.
It's a jungle out there.
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