Comment on Heiroglyphs

• spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  In addition, there’s a psychological phenomenon where our brains only need the first and last letter of a word in the right place, and all the right letters in between in any order, to suss out a word. Our familiarity with a lngaauge will put it together, so presumably the same is true for healthcare providers’ common words

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  • danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    In adtidion, trehe’s a pshyocloigal pheonmneon where our bairns olny need the fsrit and lsat lteter of a word in the rghit pclae, and all the rghit ltertes in bteewen in any oedrr, to suss out a word. Our faiilamirty with a lagnuage wlil put it toehgter, so pseurambly the smae is treu for haehtlcare pvoerdirs’ cmmoon wdros.

    FTFY… I read this just as fast as the original.

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  • thelasttoot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Your e-----------e d-----t w----k w-----------t the c-----------t of the l---------s i-----------------n

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    • CaptDust@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “Your example doesn’t work without the context of the (something) intention.”

      Not bad though

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      • thelasttoot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Pretty damn close.

        “Your example doesn’t work without the context of the letters inbetween.”

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  • PlexSheep@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not sure but I think you mean chunking. When you know a word you don’t need to read all letters by themselves but know roughly what the word looks like as a whole, so you can read it faster. This also inrotrozutes a failure rate of course, but works pretty well.

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  • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I love that effect, but sometimes it can fail. For example:

    Our familiarity with lineage will…

    Is how my stupid ass brain read it first and I knew what was up

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