January 7th, 2009

Phonological Ambiguities

Ericksonian Hypnotic Language Patterns

Ambiguities
Ambiguities are words or phrases that can have more than one meaning. The mild confusion that results is conducive to developing trance. There are four basic categories of ambiguities at which we’ll be looking starting with…

Phonological Ambiguities
Phonological ambiguities are words that sound the same but have different meanings and can be used in very different ways. 

Here are some examples: not/knot, here/hear, see/sea, right/write.

Here are some examples of how those examples might be used in sentences:

“I have a knot question. Will you not progress faster by sailing at 20 knots rather than railing about how you should not sail at all? Do you know knots or do you know not?”

“I can hear the sea in this shell. Can you see this shell here?”

“… and as you listen to my voice… and relax your thoughts… exercise your right… to just listen… right here… right now… to that that is right… for you… too… hear… the words that… it would be all right… to write down… all those thoughts… that are all right… for you… right down to your bones…” (etc.)

And, you know, it would be all right for you to write and practice these patterns every day, because you want to master these skills, right?

Now you can really have fun with these “funny-logical” patterns, won’t you? 

Posted by Doug O'Brien
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Comments

  1. Thursday, January 8th, 2009

    Halimah says:


    I don’t know if you wear a watch how you learn these language patterns…. :-) H.

  2. Thursday, January 8th, 2009

    Doug O’Brien says:


    Ah, you’re jumping ahead a bit. What you have provided is a lovely example of a “Punctuational Ambiguity.” They’re very similar but different. I write more about them soon.
    Basically, phonologicals have to be spelled differently but sound the same (see/sea). Punctuational ambiguities have that pivot word in the middle that can act as the end of one sentence (in your example’s case, “I don’t know if you wear a WATCH.”) and the beginning of a second sentence (”WATCH how you can learn these patterns…”). And then you just run them together, just saying the pivot word once - as you did in the example.
    By the way - The pivot word CAN be a phonological ambiguity but it doesn’t have to be - as it isn’t in your example.

  3. Thursday, October 29th, 2009

    black hattitude says:


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