On page 201 Hofstadter discussed how certain associations in his brain made him slip up what he said in certain situations. This made me think of not so much accidental slip ups in the use of language, but purposeful ones. For instance, the use of texting lingo (lol, b/c etc...). These "shortcuts" (which aren't really shortcuts in my eyes) can make the use of a language different and sometimes even more confusing. A person can also slip up with using the texting jargon, for instance, a person once wrote "LOL" in a funeral guest book, thinking it meant "lots of love" when in turn it means "laugh out loud." So, people can mess up the meanings of made up words too.
But for conceptual slippages with respects to a computer program, a person wouldn't want their program that reads through a paragraph to mistake paper for wood, or candy for apple. But, they would rather want it to recognize that paper comes from wood, or that there is such a thing as a candy apple. We wouldn't want a person thinking that "a snicker's a day keeps the doctor away now would we? Even though most sixth graders would love this...
-Bryan
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