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[proximoception]

That's a lot of misremembering in one post.

Who was talking about reading "misled" as the past tense of "to misle" a while back? I did that too, and know others who have. Another common one seems to be thinking the three kings in the Christmas carol share rulership of a place called Orientar. You wondered if decisions had to be unanimous or just two out of three.

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Re: Mondegreens

[toctoc.livejournal.com]

There are so many! I love how, even when you learn the "correct" versions, these songs are somehow overlaid with the "incorrect" versions you first heard. In the New Pornographers song "Bleeding Heart Show, " I can never tell whether Neko Case is singing "We have arrived too late to pay" or "We have arrived to late to play." I switch back & forth between them whenever I heart it--an aural version of Wittgenstein's duck-rabbit. I tease myself by refusing to look up the right words. Exercising my negatively capable faculty or something.

Re: Mondegreens

[toctoc.livejournal.com]

"hear" not "heart." Though I do heart it.

Re: Mondegreens

[maga-dogg.livejournal.com]

My brain doesn't work this way at all -- once it's informed of the correct version, the false one gets assigned to the same category as dreams ("nonsense data, flush on next reload"). Which is annoying, because it doesn't work this way for most false things that I unlearn, and I'd rather retain the entertaining ones.

Re: Mondegreens

[toctoc.livejournal.com]

Fascinating!

Re: Mondegreens

[maga-dogg.livejournal.com]

Ah! Yes! I remember one! In Eleanor Rigby, I originally heard Father Mackenzie as Bottom Mackenzie. I assumed that his social ostracism was due to his offensive odour or something, hence the nickname. But I only remember that one because I wrote a comic about it.

Re: Mondegreens

[toctoc.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous. Perhaps you will post this comic sometime?

Re: Mondegreens

[maga-dogg.livejournal.com]

I was perhaps seven years old. Even if they're preserved somewhere, it'll probably be at least another decade before I cease to find juvenilia horribly embarrassing.

Re: Mondegreens

[toctoc.livejournal.com]

You'll be ahead of me, then.