Slip Number 2025-1
January 3, 2025
- Utterance: Vice President Trump
- Target: Vice President Harris
- Discussion:
This error was made by President Joe Biden.
Was it public? Very!
Was it embarrassing? Heck, Fnu's essay: delayed sli8ghted because
yeah!
Was it interesting? Not at all. It's a perfectly normal semantically mediated lexical slip: pretty boring really.
Same exact thing that you do when you call your kid by the dog's name (You do that, ... we all do.)
You still know which is your kid and which is the dog; your speech production system just goes looking for
semantically related things (such as names) and sometimes comes up with the wrong thing.
Happens to everyone.