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TakeTheActive:
--- Quote from: dave w on September 18, 2006, 03:01:57 PM ---Next time I will use spell check. :D
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Did you reply to the correct thread?
dave w:
Yes
Obviously, TTA, you can not spell automating or versatile any better than I. ;D
TakeTheActive:
Oh! :o
Haven't you read one of those studies where they explain how the human mind 'transposes' text into what it ;expects to see'? I remember reading an article about a test with a paragraph composed of either many or all non-words and most folks had no trouble reading it. From my PERSONAL experience, as the years pile on, it gets easier and easier. The SPAMMERS do it quite often. :P
A few weeks ago, I suggested to X10 Staff that they extend the timer between when a message is first posted and when any changes generate the "Edited by:" line. You see, for me, I experience random disconnects between the brain and the keyboard - the brain thinks one word, the eyes "see" that word, but the fingers type a different, although correctly spelled, word. Spellcheckers are of no help. I usually notice it shortly after I click on POST, but sometimes Charles has to point it out for me...
Soooo, instead of all this "gibber-gabber", why didn't you just click on MODIFY and correct the spelling errors "silently"? ???
Charles Sullivan:
--- Quote from: TakeTheActive on September 19, 2006, 12:50:07 PM ---Oh! :o
Haven't you read one of those studies where they explain how the human mind 'transposes' text into what it ;expects to see'? I remember reading an article about a test with a paragraph composed of either many or all non-words and most folks had no trouble reading it. From my PERSONAL experience, as the years pile on, it gets easier and easier. The SPAMMERS do it quite often. :P
A few weeks ago, I suggested to X10 Staff that they extend the timer between when a message is first posted and when any changes generate the "Edited by:" line. You see, for me, I experience random disconnects between the brain and the keyboard - the brain thinks one word, the eyes "see" that word, but the fingers type a different, although correctly spelled, word. Spellcheckers are of no help. I usually notice it shortly after I click on POST, but sometimes Charles has to point it out for me...
Soooo, instead of all this "gibber-gabber", why didn't you just click on MODIFY and correct the spelling errors "silently"? ???
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Hmm... let's see.
  ... human mind 'transposes' text into what it ;expects to see'?
  ...I suggested to X10 Staff that they extend the timer between when ...
(This is all :) )
TakeTheActive:
--- Quote from: Charles Sullivan on September 19, 2006, 01:37:37 PM ---
--- Quote from: TakeTheActive on September 19, 2006, 12:50:07 PM ---Oh! :o
Haven't you read one of those studies where they explain how the human mind 'transposes' text into what it ;expects to see'? I remember reading an article about a test with a paragraph composed of either many or all non-words and most folks had no trouble reading it. From my PERSONAL experience, as the years pile on, it gets easier and easier. The SPAMMERS do it quite often. :P
A few weeks ago, I suggested to X10 Staff that they extend the timer between when a message is first posted and when any changes generate the "Edited by:" line. You see, for me, I experience random disconnects between the brain and the keyboard - the brain thinks one word, the eyes "see" that word, but the fingers type a different, although correctly spelled, word. Spellcheckers are of no help. I usually notice it shortly after I click on POST, but sometimes Charles has to point it out for me...
Soooo, instead of all this "gibber-gabber", why didn't you just click on MODIFY and correct the spelling errors "silently"? ???
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Hmm... let's see.
  ... human mind 'transposes' text into what it ;expects to see'?
  ...I suggested to X10 Staff that they extend the timer between when ...
(This is all :) )
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[ Charles, what are all these capital As with a circumflex / caret above them supposed to be in your OS? Your posts are the only places I recall seeing them.]
Characters Ordered by Unicode : LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX , Acirc
--- Quote from: Cambridge University ---Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
Or rather...
According to a researcher (sic) at Cambridge University, it doesn't matter in what order the letters in a word are, the only important thing is that the first and last letter be at the right place. The rest can be a total mess and you can still read it without problem. This is because the human mind does not read every letter by itself but the word as a whole.
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Reference 1
--- Quote from: New Scientist ---This reminds me of my PhD at Nottingham University (1976), which showed that randomising letters in the middle of words had little or no effect on the ability of skilled readers to understand the text. Indeed one rapid reader noticed only four or five errors in an A4 page of muddled text.
This is easy to denmtrasote. In a puiltacibon of New Scnieitst you could ramdinose all the letetrs, keipeng the first two and last two the same, and reibadailty would hadrly be aftcfeed. My ansaylis did not come to much beucase the thoery at the time was for shape and senqeuce retigcionon. Saberi's work sugsegts we may have some pofrweul palrlael prsooscers at work.
The resaon for this is suerly that idnetiyfing coentnt by paarllel prseocsing speeds up regnicoiton. We only need the first and last two letetrs to spot chganes in meniang.
This was not easy to type!
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Reference 2
--- Quote from: Microsoft Corporation ---Introduction
Evidence from the last 20 years of work in cognitive psychology indicate that we use the letters within a word to recognize a word. Many typographers and other text enthusiasts I’ve met insist that words are recognized by the outline made around the word shape. Some have used the term bouma as a synonym for word shape, though I was unfamiliar with the term. The term bouma appears in Paul Saenger’s 1997 book Space Between Words: The Origins of Silent Reading. There I learned to my chagrin that we recognize words from their word shape and that “Modern psychologists call this image the ‘Bouma shape.’”
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Reference 3
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