http://linguisticmystic.com/2007/06/06/paging-dr-freud-parapraxis-and-everyday-speech/ Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:32:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://linguisticmystic.com/2007/06/06/paging-dr-freud-parapraxis-and-everyday-speech/#comment-329 Matt Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:56:44 +0000 http://linguisticmystic.com/2007/06/06/paging-dr-freud-parapraxis-and-everyday-speech/#comment-329 At a conference held at a prominent graduate school, the keynote lecturer had just finished delivering a highly technical, somewhat inaccessible address to befuddled gaggle to students and academics. Time for Q&A, a young professor in the audience raised his hand. Addressing the speaker, the professor lauded his kindness in attending, his graciousness in offering his theories, and his intellect, summing up his praise with, "You never fail to disappoint as a speaker." It was not until the next day that the mortified professor emailed me and the other attendees to indicate that he must have meant one of the more common sayings, "You never fail to impress" or "You never disappoint." At a conference held at a prominent graduate school, the keynote lecturer had just finished delivering a highly technical, somewhat inaccessible address to befuddled gaggle to students and academics. Time for Q&A, a young professor in the audience raised his hand. Addressing the speaker, the professor lauded his kindness in attending, his graciousness in offering his theories, and his intellect, summing up his praise with, “You never fail to disappoint as a speaker.” It was not until the next day that the mortified professor emailed me and the other attendees to indicate that he must have meant one of the more common sayings, “You never fail to impress” or “You never disappoint.”

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