• Beehaw_Girl@beehaw.org
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    9 days ago

    This type of blunder is called paraphasia, a speech disorder in which a person unintentionally substitutes, distorts, or rearranges words and sounds.

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      8 days ago

      Why am I not surprised to look up paraphasia on the web, and one of the first links tells me that it’s a common symptom of frontotemporal dementia?

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        6 days ago

        I don’t know anything about politics or current events or wars, but I think Japan was the wrong country. He was supposed to say a different country.