Ntohnig to do wtih Hkiing

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#1

I just read a post from dogfish. It reminded me of how we actually read. This is what the post said:

as a first time packbacker doing a thru hike of the LT is there any advice you can offer.

How many read backpacker instead of packbacker? Our eyes read whole words not letters. We can make sense of words that do not make sense. As a school administrator I understand why kids have problems proofreading their own work. Here is an example:

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey iteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

Just an interesting post from an April Fool.

Bilko

#2

That’s pretty interesting Bilko. It’s kinda trippy to read that paragraph.:tongue

zach attack

#3

:x i’m dizzy…:lol

roadie

#4

Aaruuugh!!! :lol

Lady Di

#5

I have seen this phenomenon before, and actually it was taught to me in high school 24 years ago, in a sense. i took two years of typing classess (couldn’t tell it from my errors) which is called keyboarding these days, and after you get past the basics and start to learn how to really type, you don’t think about the letters your are tyoping…you just think of the word in your mind as you type and your fingers find the correct letters automatically…kind of like the above, but in reverse…thats how some steno’s and office assistants can type 60 and 70 words a minute…your mind trains itself to take the most efficent shortcut…:eek:

Big Dee

#6

forgot to say, that of all my classes in highschool, typing was the second most important one in my career in government/management. the first was english and grammar. the ability to write reports, memo’s and proposals plus typing them myself instead of waiting to have someone do it for me, has been priceless.
:smiley:

Big Dee

#7

A funny story about how important typing has been in my life. As a Marine in Vietnam in 1969 and 1970 I was out in the bush about 7 months, during the monsoons and getting hit every day on patrol. One day a helicopter comes into our perimeter (a very normal occurrance), and soon I heard someone calling my name. Turns out that back at the batallion area a rocket had hit the company office and killed some office personnel, and the others were soon to rotate back to the world. They had checked the service record books of everybody in the company and mine told them two things. First, I was probably the one in the company with the highest IQ (not bragging, but that’s what they said - maybe not too hard to do in a company of Marines???!!!), and second, I had taken a typing test back in boot camp (as everyone did), and had scored the fastest number of words per minute with fewest mistakes (was that less than 1000 mistakes in 100 words??). Anyway, they asked if I would be willing to come back and run the company office. It was pretty normal for them to take guys with a long time in the bush to fill roles in the rear areas as needed (drive a jeep, etc). So, I looked around at my buddies and they all told me I would be crazy not to take the job. So, I took 10 minutes to gather my stuff, say goodbye, and hop on the chopper. Now, I ask you. Is typing important? Turned out to be pretty important to me! :slight_smile: CBiscuit

CBiscuit

#8

Yes, i’ve learned that the mind memorizes the shape of words instead of putting together every little letter. It’s called Gestalt Theory.

Also, I did a paper on college on the research that suggests that not only do we read everything we see, but that we CAN’T NOT read it if the message is short enough. The research showed that the info was recalled even after people claimed they never saw or read words in their line of site. Advertisers know this. That’s why billboards are so effective and intrusive. It’s also why removing all the tags from your backpacking gear can save your hiking buddies and strangers from getting an advertisement from you.

Tha Wookie

#9

y cnt jonny reed?

OLD & IN THE WAY

#10

CBiscuit, I have a family relative that had a similar circumstance. He was about to be drafted for Korea, so he joined the Marines instead (another story). Anyway, at entrance interview they asked him if he had any special classes in high school; all he could come up with was “typing.” They immediately shipped him to the Marine Corps Air Station in Miami to be the personal assistant to the Commandant; he had more power than anyone else on the base and sat out the war on Miami Beach. Everyone wanted to be his friend and do him favors as he had the keys to everything. What a deal, and it was all because of typing!

RockyTrail

#11

I worked at North Carolina State University for 14 years. The team name is the “Wolfpack”. There is a book store across the street named “Packbacker” - get the pun?

However, for several years I walked passed it and read “Backpacker” in my mind. I figured it had something to do with the weight of the books - you’d need a backpack to carry them off. It was an embarassing moment when in a conversation I said something about the “Backpacker bookstore” someone pointed my error out to me.

Locomotive Breath

#12

Pleeez…sum one tell me how 2 trafnser one of thseo smeliy fcaes itno my mesagse…Tahnx.

Dummy Me