Peeve: Author wants to say P(X), but knows it sounds wrong, so they say P is true of "X/Y", where P is true of Y, and Y is kind of like X.
~ a motte and bailey. "Can't accuse me of BS bc maybe I meant the trivial reading instead of the interesting false one"
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Except that no one even sees the BS. Your brain just accepts that surprise/salience is a thing, or confusion/annoyance etc
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