That's charming! An oxymoronic mondegreen or somesuch.
I know one of these in ASL: there's a quick, tense hold that modifies a motion to add the meaning "particularly, especially." One of the motions which can grammatically be so modified is "slow". So one has a quick, tense, slow == inordinately slow, an archetypical slowness.
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Date: 2010-11-19 02:27 am (UTC)I know one of these in ASL: there's a quick, tense hold that modifies a motion to add the meaning "particularly, especially." One of the motions which can grammatically be so modified is "slow". So one has a quick, tense, slow == inordinately slow, an archetypical slowness.