how to classify?

[Laurence Horn]

At 10:20 AM -0400 6/18/10, Charles Doyle wrote:
>A misspelling, or a Freudian slip, or an invitation . . . .
>
>Charlie

A quick perusal of google reveals, as it were, a plethora of sites
offering "bare with me" paraphernalia (T-shirts, throw pillows,
coasters, etc.) for nudist (or "naturalist") camps and such.

Cf. e.g.
http://allnudist.wordpress.com/2009/07/05/bare-with-me/
http://shop.cafepress.com/bare-with-me
http://www.aanr-east.com/t_pages.php?id=108 [nude stuff online merchandise]

The one below was presumably not a conscious effort to achieve this message.

LH

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>>Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 06:57:15 -0700
>>From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> (on behalf
>>of "James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>"
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>>an addendum to my previous post:
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>>the speaker quoted therein just sent out an e-mail that read
>>"please bare with me".
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>>Is this a non-verbal malaprop, a non-verbal eggcorn, or what?
>>
>>      - Jim Landau
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