The study also explains the lasting cost of guilt that a ghost feels, finding that even if the other party passively accepts the avoidance action, the terminator faces the lingering cost of knowing that he or she took the coward's way out of the relationship..
An instance of speech error is called a malapropism when a word is produced which is nonsensical or ludicrous in context, yet similar in sound to what was intended. Definitions differ somewhat in terms of the cause of the error.
In it, one of the main sources of comedy was the character of Mrs. Malaprop, an aunt-type figure who gets involved in the dealings of two young lovers, Lydia Languish and Jack Absolute. What made Mrs. Malaprop appealing to the audience was that she would occasionally misuse words to great comedic effect. She would say things like âHe is the very pineapple of politeness,â where the word âpineappleâ is used instead of âpinnacleâ.