Weasel Phrases.

Fred_Flintstone · 2010-12-15T21:00:48+00:00

http://www.kissthisguy.com/

^ A list of misheard lyrics. Might help.

HipsterCasanova · 2010-12-15T19:12:35+00:00

I wish our NLP community was a bit bigger. This is something I would love to learn more about.

monostratos · 2010-12-15T19:48:14+00:00

Here's an intro for people not familiar with the subject. It's a phrase that contains verbal ambiguity, usually one innocent meaning and one that's sleazy and/or manipulative. I suppose they're called weasel phrases because you can always weasel out by feigning innocence. When used in conversations, the recepient usually only hears the "normal" sentence consciously, but is still affected subconsciously by the alternate meaning. Saying a sentence containing the words "your mind" (while gesturing towards yourself) may be registered subconsciously as "your mine!", emphasized by the gesture and tone of voice. They're also (especially) used by sales people who have been trained in NLP. One that's commonly used is "by now", which sounds a lot like "buy now!". I'm not sure where the theory or terminology comes from, although I suspect it's from NLP (Richard Bandler), refined for seduction by Ross Jeffries. Or Mystery. It's hard to tell with those PUAs and their Jedi tricks.

cheddarchexmix · 2010-12-15T21:20:25+00:00

I'm not into NLP. I don't really get why you have to slip in these memorized double phrases when it's so easy to just make overt sexual comments/jokes that get a girl steamed up.

Title	Weasel Phrases.
Author	monostratos
Upvotes	0
Comments	8
Date	December 15, 2010 6:56 PM UTC (15 years ago)
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