word cognition

[gendanken]

James:

Taws blirilg, and the stihly teovs did grye and gelmie in the wbae

The Jaberwocky by none other than Mr. Lewis Carroll himself.

Its about me, you know.

 

[curioucity]

Sprisure! I eprcneixed the smae too!
Makes me wonder....

 

[SnakeLord]

Please read this sentence and count the F's:

Finished files are the result of years of scientific study combined with the experience of years.



Most people on first reading that sentence will count 3.

 

[lixluke]

6

 

[Angelus]

Umm, I got three, is that wrong?

 

[Angelus]

or is it 1? because F and f are different?

 

[tablariddim]

I cunoetd 6 f lteetrs in the secnetne.

 

[Angelus]

Umm, there's not six f's in that entire post. Unless I'm missing something.

 

[Redoubtable]

I count three f's, one upper-case, the other two lower-case.

Explain! NOW!

 

[tablariddim]

Hree's a tip: floolw ecah lteter wtih yuor msuoe whtiuot rdanieg the autcal wdors and jsut cnuot the f's.

 

[Angelus]

How the *uck did I miss the of's?

 

[and2000x]

Doesn't this go back to simple Aristotle? Our brains always categorize things or we would be spending our entire lives distinguishing one thing from another.

 

[SnakeLord]

Sorry, i usually write it all in caps to save any misunderstandings. Apologies.

Usually people count only 3 f's. (they miss all the of's). What seems to happen is people with a mathematical type brain get it right, simply because they actually count the f's instead of reading the words which ends up normally with 3. The same thing can be done with stuff like:

the
silliest
mistake in
in the world

Where people usually completely miss the second 'in'. The word is instantly recognised and pretty much ignored.

 

[truth]

This may or may not be a hoax, it was on Snopes as an undetermined. See:

http://www.snopes.com/language/apocryph/cambridge.asp

 

[storni]

snakelord



stop playing with my eyes will ya?