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Swarbrick suffered from emphysema, underwent three tracheotomies [and] in 2004 he received a double lung transplant

PeejayAdams wrote:

a breathtakingly good fiddler.

Marc Clifton wrote:

That's an ironic turn of phrase.

PeejayAdams wrote:

I'm wondering if there is a specific name for the phenomenon where a word that is entirely appropriate in one context is rendered somewhat inappropriate by an associated context.

A Freudian slip, also called parapraxis, is an error in speech, memory, or physical action that is interpreted as occurring due to the interference of an unconscious ("dynamically repressed") subdued wish or internal train of thought. They reveal a "source [of ideas] outside the speech". The concept is thus part of classical psychoanalysis.

In contrast to psychoanalytic theorists, cognitive psychologists say that linguistic slips can represent a sequencing conflict in grammar production. From this perspective, slips may be due to cognitive underspecification that can take a variety of forms – inattention, incomplete sense data or insufficient knowledge. Secondly, they may be due to the existence of some locally appropriate response pattern that is strongly primed by its prior usage, recent activation or emotional change or by the situation calling conditions.

OriginalGriff wrote:

Except Parisian waiters of course.