Speech error Speech error A speech error, commonly referred to as a slip of the tongue (Latin: lapsus linguae, or occasionally self-demonstratingly, lipsus languae) or misspeaking, is a deviation (conscious or unconscious) from the apparently intended form of an utterance. They can be subdivided into spontaneously and inadvertently produced speech errors and intentionally produced word-plays or puns. Another distinction can be drawn between production and comprehension errors. Errors in speech production and perception are also called performance errors. Some examples of speech error include sound exchange or sound anticipation errors. In sound exchange errors the order of two individual morphemes is reversed,
Latin obscenity level of obscene loading varies from country to country; whilst in Scotland and in Ireland, "cack" is occasionally used either as a mild interjection, or as an impolite adjective to mean of poor quality, broken, nonsense. It also exists as a loan in Finnish ("kakka"). The derivatives of this Latin word appear in Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, Italian ("cacca"), Romanian, and French. Also, in Slavic languages: "kakati". The verb is usually used intransitively. Martial (1.92.11) says: However, in the phrase below, from Catullus 36, it is transitive: Few synonyms are attested in Classical Latin, apart from a word "cunīre", attested by