On Tue, 7 Jun 2005 17:50:47 -0500, chuck <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>> -----Original Message----- by John Leudeman,
>>
>> Ok - to prove the Feesh's point:
>>
>> Typoglycemia
>>
>>
>> Don't delete this because it looks weird. Believe it or not
>> you can read it.
>>
>>
>> I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was
>> rdanieg The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid Aoccdrnig to >>
rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer inwaht
>> oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is
>> taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The
>> rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a
>> porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey
>> lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? yaeh
>> and I awlyas thought slpeling was ipmorant .

I couldn't understand it because "cdnuolt" missed an apostrophe,
"phaonmneal" misspelled, "inwaht" had a missing space, and above
all, the important last word "ipmorant" was ...


Another English writing Law was  that quite a few letters (such as
"k") can be deleted from the English language without having any
effect on the written prose.   There doesn't seem to be a single
"k" in that entire paragraph.

>>
>>
>And speed readers typically see more than a single word.  Speed reading
was
>a required course at dear old Purdue in the CS curriculum.  Very boring.
>Sit and read while a bar of light scans down the page.  They gradually
>increase the speed of the light over time to make you read faster.  Did
not
>work on me.  Gave me a headache cause the light could not keep up.  Took
an
>Evelyn Wood course in 8th grade.


I can read 200,000 words a minute, if your don't test me for my
comprehension of those 200,000 words.  :-)

I think there is a fine line between a "speed reader" and a
reader with an "attention deficit syndrome" who can't hold
attention more than 3 lines -- which is about what a speed
reader takes to read three pages, and kunderstands no more
than 3 lines of it.  :)

I am the antithesis of a "speed reader", partly because for some
of my reading material. It may take hours to fully understand
or comprehend three lines.   That's also the reason I haven't
finished reading the Erdos book yet, and I've been reading it
(slowly) for over 2 months now?   :-)   But I have a complete
appreciation of all the numbers, theories, and an instant recall
of all the mathematical weirdos in it (as Bjorn noted, I wasn't
mentioned in the book).  :-)

Once something is UNDERSTOOD, it finds its place in "permanent"
memory that is hard to impossible to FORGET.

Lo Yu.