tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22478825.post3218652370230326906..comments2010-02-22T18:11:24.212+11:00Chris Bowditchhttps://profiles.google.com/111177916514582203050noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22478825.post-71641222098112165822010-02-22T18:11:24.212+11:002010-02-22T18:11:24.212+11:00Stelle has it dead right and Georgie has clarified it further.<br /><br />A freudian slip is when you unconsciously reveal the truth. The journalist is perfectly correct to identify this as a freudian slip- nothing shoddy or sloppy about here. Sturges -technically speaking- said the planned development was deliberately announced during an election campaign, when what he meant was that it wasn&#39;t.stuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13874623782526794906noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22478825.post-67822459532959522752010-02-22T14:42:09.470+11:002010-02-22T14:42:09.470+11:00Isn&#39;t a Freudian slip meant to be about some kind of repressed desire as well??Georgiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15409095785194424584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22478825.post-60038189643796320752010-02-22T14:38:00.235+11:002010-02-22T14:38:00.235+11:00look, I&#39;ve done an Arts degree and I couldn&#39;t pick it.<br /><br />English should be more like Greek where two negatives make a really negative statement not a positive!<br /><br />Having said that if the question was, &quot;Isn&#39;t this a coincidence?&quot; And he said &quot;No, it isn&#39;t&quot; then I can see that it might have been something vaguely but not really like a Freudian slip. But the question was framed in the positive, &quot;Is it a coincidence?&quot; and he answered with a strong negative, No it isn&#39;t... So in some ways he&#39;s not really accidentally saying yes... He is saying NO definitely NOT.Chris Bowditchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06266685143006297057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22478825.post-51369773945412293222010-02-22T14:30:39.563+11:002010-02-22T14:30:39.563+11:00ohhhh.... my excuse for missing that is that I only finished a year of my arts degree before switching to straight science...<br /><br />I maintain that it is shoddy journalism at best!Georgiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15409095785194424584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22478825.post-26513320336474148752010-02-22T14:29:46.877+11:002010-02-22T14:29:46.877+11:00This comment has been removed by the author.Georgiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15409095785194424584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22478825.post-40481007174921710762010-02-22T13:55:15.607+11:002010-02-22T13:55:15.607+11:00Stelle has it!Jono Smithhttp://jonosmith.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22478825.post-21182505019078537802010-02-22T12:55:54.541+11:002010-02-22T12:55:54.541+11:00Hey Chris! How are you married man? <br /><br />Well, I can kinda work it out...but it&#39;s really not particularly Freudian (thank goodness) When the guy asked him if it was a coincidence if construction was starting in the middle of the election campaign, Sturges replied &quot;no&quot; - as in, &quot;no, it&#39;s not a coincidence&quot; (read into that, this is a stunt we&#39;re pulling to get people in Kingston to vote for us). What he really meant (I think) was &quot;No, it has been planned for a long time and the election has nothing to do with it.&quot;<br /><br />Wow, now I feel like I&#39;ve achieved something today (deconstructing the Mercury!) <br /><br />Cheers old boy and say hi to all the Melbourne peeps for me<br />StelleAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22478825.post-13020196341682260732010-02-22T12:07:29.504+11:002010-02-22T12:07:29.504+11:00I&#39;m with you, Chris - that&#39;s bizarre! He said no. It was perhaps a flimsy story, and not many might choose to believe that the timing of construction was a coincidence, but in no way is that a Freudian slip. Even wikipedia knows that.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freudian_slipGeorgiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15409095785194424584noreply@blogger.com