Reasoning

[stoutfellow]

I remember, as a child, persuading myself that a light sleeper was someone who could be awakened by light (e.g., by turning on a lamp), whereas a sound sleeper could only be awakened by sound.

Does anyone else remember making similar, perfectly reasonable but utterly wrong, linguistic interpretations?

Comments

[norabombay.livejournal.com]

As a child, I would watch Star Trek reruns with my dad.

One ep he said "Look Nora, that's a klingon ship".

I interpreted it as a "cling on" as the ship did sort of look like it suction cupped on.

Yeah.

Took years to get that straightened out.

[mareklamo.livejournal.com]

Until fairly recently, my sister thought "moon-faced" people had long, thin faces with pointy chins.

[toraks.livejournal.com]

I got very confused by road signs that said "do not pass". I kept thinking that we kept passing them! Wasn't that wrong?

It took years to figure that out.

[filkferengi]

When I was a kid, they used to have signs beside the highway that said "fine for littering". Even then, I knew that was "just wrong."

;)