What is it called when you accidentally say a completely different word than the one intended?
For example, if I mean to say “I’d like to buy this book, please.” but instead it comes out “I’d like to buy this orange, please? What is this phenomena called? Aphasia, a Spoonerism, what?
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Are you thinking of a Freudian slip?
I think that’s aphasia; unconsciously substituting the completely wrong word.
A slip of the tongue.
It’s aphasia when you are suffering from a brain condition that causes you to lose your ability to write or speak. A small verbal lapse like this isn’t aphasia.
thats called “OH SHIT”
and it happens to me on a daily basis
I’m with Jeruba on this one.
parapraxis OR “A SLIP OF THE TONGUE” IS THE WINNER!
i do this all the time, with names. i call my cat my sons name, or my husband my brothers name…things like that. i get it from my mother.
A freudian slip is “when you say one thing but mean your mother!”
Isn’t there a neurological name for it as well?
Isn’t it called “lapsus”?
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