psychology dector

Here's an example of a confusion I found yesterday:   Plantu's  presidential candidates both regret their years spent applying the politics of a certain "looser" (meaning a loser): Hollande for Vals, and Sarko for Fillon. • The verb “to lose” is extremely simple for an English child. French people are familiar with this verb. They would understand somebody who says he has lost his wallet. They recognize the sound of the word “loser”, pronounced as luzeur . They know that it designates somebody who has lost something, or has a tendency to lose things often. But they often don't know how to spell it correctly. They might even spell it incorrectly as “looser” (as in the above political drawing). • The adjective “loose” is equally simple in the English-speaking world, because a child soon learns, say, that one of his/her teeth is loose . That child might even discover that he/she can loosen that tooth by wobbling it to and fro. In the unusual case of two teeth that a...