Motus Mentis

In an exchange of emails with an old friend just now about the Conrad Murray verdict, I wrote “I really can’t comment much about the trial because I paid it no attention at all, and don’t know any of the details.”

But when I looked at the note before sending it, I saw that I had in fact typed “I really can’t comment much about the trial because I paid it no attention at all, and don’t no any of the details.”

I think that’s an odd sort of typo to make — writing ‘no’ instead of ‘know’. They’re completely different words, expressing utterly unrelated meanings, and all they have in common is the way they sound. I wonder what making a slip like that means in terms of what’s happening in my brain as I write.