In other cases, where the form of the slip is not exactly the opposite of what is intended, a contradictory sense may still often come to expression. “I am not _inclined_ (_geneigt_) to appreciate my predecessor’s merits.” “Inclined” is not the opposite of “in a position to” (_geeignet_), but it is an open confession of a thought in sharpest contradiction to the speaker’s duty to meet the situation gracefully. In still other cases the slip simply adds a second meaning to the one intended. The sentence then sounds like a contraction, an abbreviation, a condensation of several sentences into one. Thus the determined lady who said: “He may eat and drink whatever _I_ choose.” That is as if she had said: “He can eat and drink what he chooses, but what does it matter what he chooses? It is for me to do the choosing!” Slips of the tongue often give this impression of abbreviation; for instance, when a professor of anatomy at the end of his lecture on the nasal cavities asks whether his class has thoroughly understood it and, after a general reply in the affirmative, goes on to say: “I can hardly believe that that is so, since persons who can thoroughly understand the nasal cavities can be counted, even in a city of millions, on _one finger_ ... I mean, on the fingers of one hand.” The abbreviated sentence has its own meaning: it says that there is only one person who understands the subject. In contrast to these types in which the slip plainly discloses its meaning are others in which the slip of the tongue conveys nothing intelligible, and therefore directly controverts our expectations. The mis-pronunciation by mistake of proper names, or the enunciation of meaningless sounds, is such a frequent occurrence that this alone would appear to dispose at once of the question whether all errors have a meaning. Yet closer inspection of such examples discloses the fact that it is easily possible to understand such distortions; indeed, that the difference between these unintelligible cases and the previous more comprehensible ones is not so very great. The owner of a horse, on being asked how it was, replied: “O, it may _stad_—it may _take_ another month.”[14] Asked what he really meant to say, he answered that he was thinking it was a _sad_ business, and the words “sad” and “take” together gave rise to _stad_. (Meringer and Mayer.) Another man was relating some objectionable incidents and went on: “and then certain facts were _refilled_.”[15] He explained that he meant to say these facts were “filthy.” “Revealed” and “filthy” together combine to form _refilled_. (Meringer and Mayer.)