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Originally Posted by Hitch
Nah. I'll own it, especially because I rant about homonym errors all the time. (I'm taking something that seems to affect my ability to think of words. It's horrifying to me, of all things! I've lived and died by words for 60+ years now, and HOMONYM errors? If this happened to me for real, not a medicine thing, I don't know what I'd do.)
Mortifying, though.
Hitch
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Do you know for a fact it's a medicinal effect.
Strokes can leave a similar effect - including mini-strokes (Transient Ischemic Attack). Following a minor stroke, I was left with a problem with a specific group of words - aggravate, arrogate, exaggerate, aggregate etc. I know the word I want - e.g 'arrogate', but I will
say, write or type another word - e.g. 'exaggerate' or 'gravitate'. A couple of neurologists have told me it's not an uncommon residual effect of strokes.
BR