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Error: Decoding an Eponym

This video presents the same text shown beside it, spoken and on screen. It adds nothing the text does not say.

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Decoding an eponym produces a meaning the term does not carry, because the term was never built from word parts in the first place.

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Bell palsy has nothing to do with a bell.

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When a decode returns something absurd, check whether the term is a name before assuming the decode was done wrong.