Learned words misunderstood by uneducated

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Learned words misunderstood by uneducated.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd misunderstandings. · One thing mistaken for another. · One thing mistaken for another – miscellaneous. · view the constellation · filed as J1803

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Filed under One thing mistaken for another – miscellaneous.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Not of legitimate birth. A cleric is asked whether he is of legitimate birth ("de legitimo thoro"). "No, I am not from that place; I am from Schmich." Doctor's expressions misunderstood

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Breath in the cold thought to be tobacco smoke Words in a foreign language thought to be insults Conversation by sign language mutually misunderstood Other misunderstandings of words Setting sun mistaken for fire Other things with mistaken identities

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Poet uses words which student cannot understand and so confounds him. (Cf. J1803.)

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