{"id":29085,"date":"2020-06-20T16:10:49","date_gmt":"2020-06-20T21:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=29085"},"modified":"2020-06-20T16:10:49","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T21:10:49","slug":"word-of-the-day-570","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/06\/20\/word-of-the-day-570\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Semantic paraphasia<\/em>:<\/p>\n

John Gartner, a psychologist and a former assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, wrote last year in USA Today that there are two signs of language skills deteriorating. \u201cSemantic paraphasia\u201d means you substitute an incorrect word for a correct one. For example, when Trump discussed the \u201corigins\u201d of the Mueller investigation, he said: \u201cI hope they now go and take a look at the oranges, the oranges of that investigation, the beginnings of that investigation.\u201d\u00a0[“Trump is going to freak out when he sees this<\/a>,”, Jennifer Rubin, WaPo<\/strong>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Although I think there’s a better word or phrase, although I cannot think of it right now. The thing I notice is not that he’s using the wrong word, but the word, oranges, sounds a lot like the word he meants, origins.<\/p>\n

Heavens knows I’ve done that a time or two.<\/p>\n

And, in fact, the next paragraph gives me that phrase:<\/p>\n

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The second, Gartner explains, is \u201cphonemic paraphasia,\u201d or the substitution of one word with a similar sounding non-word. For example,\u00a0calling<\/a>\u00a0Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu \u201cBetanyahu\u201d or saying \u201cbigly\u201d instead of \u201cbig league.\u201d Such slip-ups are not proof of cognitive decline, but Gartner says they\u00a0can be linked<\/a> to moderate to severe stages of Alzheimer\u2019s.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Semantic paraphasia: John Gartner, a psychologist and a former assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, wrote last year in USA Today that there are two signs of language skills deteriorating. \u201cSemantic paraphasia\u201d means you substitute an incorrect word for a correct one. For example, when Trump discussed \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29086,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29085\/revisions\/29086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}