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

[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.