In still other cases the slip simply adds a second meaning to the one intended. The sentence then sounds like a contradiction, an abbreviation, a condensation of several sentences. Thus the lady of energetic disposition, "He may eat and drink whatever _I_ please." The real meaning of this abbreviation is as though the lady had said, "He may eat and drink whatever he pleases. But what does it matter what _he_ pleases! It is _I_ who do the pleasing." Slips of the tongue often give the impression of such an abbreviation. For example, the anatomy professor, after his lecture on the human nostril, asks whether the class has thoroughly understood, and after a unanimous answer in the affirmative, goes on to say: "I can hardly believe that is so, since the people who understand the human nostril can, even in a city of millions, be counted on _one finger_--I mean, on the fingers of one hand." The abbreviated sentence here also has its meaning: it expresses the idea that there is only one person who thoroughly understands the subject. In contrast to these groups of cases are those in which the error does not itself express its meaning, in which the slip of the tongue does not in itself convey anything intelligible; cases, therefore, which are in sharpest opposition to our expectations. If anyone, through a slip of the tongue, distorts a proper name, or puts together an unusual combination of syllables, then this very common occurrence seems already to have decided in the negative the question of whether all errors contain a meaning. Yet closer inspection of these examples discloses the fact that an understanding of such a distortion is easily possible, indeed, that the difference between these unintelligible cases and the previous comprehensible ones is not so very great. A man who was asked how his horse was, answered, "Oh, it may _stake_--it may take another month." When asked what he really meant to say, he explained that he had been thinking that it was a _sorry_ business and the coming together of "_take_" and "_sorry_" gave rise to "_stake_." (Meringer and Mayer.) Another man was telling of some incidents to which he had objected, and went on, "and then certain facts were _re-filed_." Upon being questioned, he explained that he meant to stigmatize these facts as "_filthy_." "_Revealed_" and "_filthy_" together produced the peculiar "_re-filled_." (Meringer and Mayer.)