{"id":62406,"date":"2024-02-10T09:03:48","date_gmt":"2024-02-10T14:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=62406"},"modified":"2024-02-10T09:24:25","modified_gmt":"2024-02-10T14:24:25","slug":"unforeseen-circumcisions-dual-misfirings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=62406","title":{"rendered":"Unforeseen circumcisions:  dual misfirings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sign on the door of a Pizza Hut eatery in <a href=\"https:\/\/northernontario.ctvnews.ca\/northern-ont-pizza-shop-s-unforeseen-circumcisions-typo-goes-viral-1.6746886\">Timmins, Ontario<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/~bgzimmer\/unforeseen.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Click to embiggen\" src=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/~bgzimmer\/unforeseen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n(<a href=\"https:\/\/oecd.ai\/en\/incidents\/64583\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/oecd.ai\/en\/incidents\/64583&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1707659969615000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3vS1KOq4jb1Qc3NlJqAVKF\">source<\/a>)<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Of course, it's easy to see how \"circumstances\" can morph into \"circumcisions\", but Chau Wu has taken the investigation one step further to propose the following as a contributing \/ initiating trigger for the error:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">My hypothesis for the misfiring of neural circuits in the sign writer's brain goes like this:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">unforeseen &gt; foreseen &gt; foreskin &gt; circumcisions<\/p>\n<p>This would seem to be a case of dual \/ simultaneous causation.<\/p>\n<p>It has happened before. See <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/david8hughes\/status\/1253190008082587648?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/david8hughes\/status\/1253190008082587648?lang%3Den&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1707659969615000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2ClOFOTUhyhnEja7TOVSrG\">here<\/a>, for one example among many.<\/p>\n<p><b>Selected readings<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to Excepted for publication\" href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=51665\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p%3D51665&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1707659969615000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1yBOKersB75nHYU7wMtw4p\">Excepted for publication<\/a>\" (7\/30\/21)<\/li>\n<li>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to Take stalk of: thoughts on philology and Sinology\" href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=46562\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p%3D46562&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1707659969615000&amp;usg=AOvVaw35OOos4nPz4u6V2xts5ocU\">Take stalk of: thoughts on philology and Sinology<\/a>\" (3\/29\/20)<\/li>\n<li>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to \" href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=46720\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p%3D46720&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1707659969615000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0jbhTyS2q-DbWEonhvQqRp\">'One I first saw': more on homophonically induced typing errors<\/a>\" (4\/8\/20)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sign on the door of a Pizza Hut eatery in Timmins, Ontario: (source)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,307],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-errors","category-miswriting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62406"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62424,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62406\/revisions\/62424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}