Guffaws

I once while eating a large portion of mashed potatoes and gravy,

began to recite the pledge of allegiance with my mouth particularly full...

 

Hoffstader identifies a cognitive quirk, in attempting to speak, we try to translate the way we think into a way that can be understood by others. We are fortunate that so often, "You know what I mean.", because frequently what comes out of our mouths is not what we mean to say -He calls these word-blends. 

They seem to arise when an idea with two similar references wishes to be expressed. Flight and plane, each serve equally as well in the sentence "No one could get tickets on that [blank]." Both words carry slight differences in nuance.

The best word for the job, one with full expressive power, would be a word that contains the full range of nuance provided by these two words. --And since your brain has learned that the phonological sound of a word is directly associated with it's meaning, this new 'best word' should probably sound like both of them. And we get word blends in speech.

Since our brain has learned that the structure of words is directly associated with meaning, we also get word blends as we wrypen [type/write]. 

Word-blends, or as choreographers call them, mash-ups, combine ideas into single entity's. There is an idea that many of our most popular curse words are in fact, mash ups of many-many ideas, and this is why they have provide a full range of expressive power. 

One word linked to the unification  and expression of all ideas, the word of everything, le mot de tout, das wort alles; the word that embodies everything,  is spoken thus:

Ohm.

-dvn