Question #90281 -- things you mix up that others don't
Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2017 4:23 pm
https://theboard.byu.edu/questions/90281/
I always mix up Simon & Garfunkel and Gilbert & Sullivan. I definitely know the difference between them, but I always have to stop and think about which musical G&S duo with two- and three-syllable names I'm trying to say, or I'm sure to say the wrong one and confuse everyone with my discussion of my favorite Simon & Garfunkel operettas, for example.
I moved to Salt Lake from Saint Louis, and for a long time, I was constantly switching the names around when I referred to them. I also frequently mix up the cities of Vizag and Trichy in India. They're both cities I've visited in the southern part of India that have shortened names which most people use in informal speech (the full names are Visakhapatnam and Tiruchirappalli, for reference), and apparently that's enough for my brain to lump them both together.
And when I'm really tired, I mix all of my nouns up and become essentially unintelligible.
I always mix up Simon & Garfunkel and Gilbert & Sullivan. I definitely know the difference between them, but I always have to stop and think about which musical G&S duo with two- and three-syllable names I'm trying to say, or I'm sure to say the wrong one and confuse everyone with my discussion of my favorite Simon & Garfunkel operettas, for example.
I moved to Salt Lake from Saint Louis, and for a long time, I was constantly switching the names around when I referred to them. I also frequently mix up the cities of Vizag and Trichy in India. They're both cities I've visited in the southern part of India that have shortened names which most people use in informal speech (the full names are Visakhapatnam and Tiruchirappalli, for reference), and apparently that's enough for my brain to lump them both together.
And when I'm really tired, I mix all of my nouns up and become essentially unintelligible.