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

[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."

;)