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ceehiro
shak
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Its the way I read - take chunks of a line at a time and not pay attention to the actual word itself, unless it's unfamiliar or I'm proof-reading.
JP
I see what you mean about DG sentence, am still having problems with it also :)
-george
Scott
Doing its rounds as suggested before. Am just back from a weekend away so still catching up...
Very very interesting.
how do we then detect mistakes instantaneously in any published material?
you tell your brain to look for unfamiliar things instead of telling it to acquire information (which would automatically tell it to look for familiar things, and ignore outliers)
this is why i should have charged more for proofing everyones junk essays back in uni..
Shows how fast I skim! (and probably why my spell checker is so busy)
hahaha, funny that I didn't even notice the mis-spelling in the title until I went back to the index.
I jsut raelzied it atfer raednig yuor psot :).
I printed this out earlier and showed it to three people, with the title of the post on top in bold text. I know, I have little to do!
But I had a kind of reason. Two didn't notice the errors in the title and could read it pefectly. The third could not read it at all and asked immediatly why I was showing him something with such terrible spelling.
He is mildly dylexic and thus obviously has evolved a different way of reading than the majority.
He apparantly looks at the letters rather than the word shapes, the rest of us read what we expect to be there, as this old chestnut also shows.
He was also the only one to immediatly read that correctly.
The next generation of websites to come ;-)
A good way to get around stop words?
Or, if you prefer...
Interestingly I'm studying this controversial phenomenon at the Department of Linguistics at Aberystwyth University and my extraordinary discoveries wholeheartedly contradict the publicised findings regarding the relative difficulty of instantly translating sentences. My researchers developed a convenient contraption at [aardvarkbusiness.net...] that demonstrates that the hypothesis uniquely warrants credibility if the assumption that the preponderance of your words is not extended is unquestionable. Apologies for adopting a contradictory viewpoint but, theoretically speaking, lengthening the words can manufacture an incongruous statement that is virtually incomprehensible. :)
lawman
altyfc, did you see post 7 of this thread?
LOL - such a lawyer question that one. Only ask questions to which you already know the answer......
;)
TJ
SN
I can't understand what the use of this weird writing is anyway, for me it takes a lot of time to jumble up the words when writing compared to reading the jumbled words!
Sid
