freudian slip

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bobmnu @bobmnu (8157) • United States 24 Mar 09

When a person is talking in conservation and makes a slip it is some times referred to as a Freudian slip. A Freudian slip is often though to be the sub conscious coming through and it is what you really mean. For example you are...

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Freudian slips - Ever went to speak and then it comes out embarassingly wrong?

James72 @James72 (26790) • Australia 1 Sep 08

Surely many of us have gone to say something to someone but because we are looking at or thinking about something else at the same time, the word we MEANT to say comes out wrong! I have said "breast" instead of "best" for obvious...

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MyLot no no word! Whoops!

CraftyCorner @CraftyCorner (5600) • United States 25 Mar 08

I just ran into one of those words you can't type in MyLot. MyLot has a list of words it programs its computers to recognize as 'inappropriate' such as the F bomb and so on... * Well, I wasn't dropping little dirt bombs. I was...

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Freudian slip

nannacroc @nannacroc (4049) 18 Feb 07

Have you an example of making a Freudian slip? When you say things you didn't mean to but maybe wanted to. My own example was when all of my family were here on my birthday and, as my eldest daughter and her family were going I...

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