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?

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[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.