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Old 04-11-2004, 00:36   #6 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Chris
I think context has a lot to do with this as well. It's not just writing one word jumbled up but a whole paragraph. So each individual word fits into the context of the paragraph and your brain will associate those jumbled letters with only certain words in that context.
indeed. When Primary 1 kids are first taught to read, they don't spell out the individual letters in a word, they are taught to recognise the whole word in the context of the sentence, because this is how the brain learns. If the whole sentence invokes a picture of a fishing trip for example, then the brain will read 'carp'. If the sentence is is a Frosty Jack post for example, the brain will naturally read it is as 'crap'...

p.s. Happy Birthday, btw...
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