Our brains are designed to piece together incomplete information in the background, fill in gaps and use heuristics. We fill in lines on geometric shapes, add letters to words, even remember things that weren't there to make it consistent with what we expect to see. Uncanny valley, dramatic tension in art due to inconsistent visual clues, etc.
Exactly. Lots of research on this; it's not scanning or reading incorrectly, the brain efficiently comprehends correctly by mentally fixing errors, gaps, and typos. It's automatic.
I LOVE being wrong.
But damn-it, you got me
Yeah I did, LOL
I read it with Captain Howdy. He does all the heavy lifting and I can't be bothered. He's my Bottom Bitch.
🤩
My brain did an autocorrect, for sure.
Morpheus?
Do think you that's you're air breathing now?
It took me like 3 times to find the issue too. Dammit.
Our brains are designed to piece together incomplete information in the background, fill in gaps and use heuristics. We fill in lines on geometric shapes, add letters to words, even remember things that weren't there to make it consistent with what we expect to see. Uncanny valley, dramatic tension in art due to inconsistent visual clues, etc.
Exactly. Lots of research on this; it's not scanning or reading incorrectly, the brain efficiently comprehends correctly by mentally fixing errors, gaps, and typos. It's automatic.
I just reeled back like Nosferatu
You bastard
If a dyslexic person read this would it be grammatically correct to them? Would it be a kind of “uno reverse card” situation?
Probably not
Nah, see the above posts on brains "auto-correcting" - jumbled is jumbled, fighting against one's dyslexia just adds another layer to filter.
nithr
partly dyslexix
They got me. haha.
Fail
Taht’s lkie the raresceh syinag we olny need the fsrit & lsat lteerts to ustrednad the wolhe tinhg!
In the Landmark Forum they did a similar trick to make the point of "lack of full awareness." Written on the white board was:
Paris in the
the spring.
People stared at it forever before someone saw the error. Now, how can we use this trick in fiction?
You got me