• Beehaw_Girl@beehaw.org
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    5 hours ago

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

    • SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip
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      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?