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Re: undiagnosed cluttering and misdiagnosis

From: Ken St. Louis
Date: 26 Apr 2010
Time: 13:03:30 -0500
Remote Name: 157.182.15.121

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Robert, Instead of "cluttering" I was going to quip, "Myers Disorder" has a nice ring to it. <smile> Seriously, it is probably about 100 years to late to change the name. Whether good or bad, "cluttering" is pretty well entrenched. In Russian now, for example, they use "klatering" even though it has no intrinsic meaning. In Bulgarian and Turkish, the word is "broken disfluent" and "broken fast" speech, respectively. In Danish, it's something like "racehorse speech." I wish we had not used "cluttering" too, but I'm sure many doctors wish we did not use "cold" for the "common cold" implying that it is a problem of being too cold. Ken


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