Interesting Mind Trick by Succatash

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Interesting Mind Trick

POSTED BY: SUCCATASH
UPDATED: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 21:54
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Tuesday, November 4, 2003 5:59 AM

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 total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

pettry amzanig huh?

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Tuesday, November 4, 2003 7:52 AM

MANIACNUMBERONE

I've actually read where it goes even a bit further than that in certain people. Some people read so fast and their mind goes over the words so quickly, that they are reading entire sentences, and even paragraph's and pages at once.

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Tuesday, November 4, 2003 9:01 AM

JOSH294

That's incredible and incredibly strange.

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Tuesday, December 9, 2003 3:50 AM

TEELABROWN

I've heard that. Interesting. Like the pyramid sentence, you know find what's wrong. There are two "the"s, but your mind takes one out. Very weird. Very cool.

Keep flyin', Happy Holidays!

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"Freedom is the Freedom to say that 2+2 makes 4. If that is granted, all else follws"-Winston, 1984
Keep flyin', and remember, THEY can't take the sky from US!

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Tuesday, December 9, 2003 3:52 AM

TEELABROWN

I go to a "gifted" school (aka smart people school), and I heard that "gifted" kids are more likely to misspell something oon the board because their mind is moving faster than their hand. Very odd.

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"Freedom is the Freedom to say that 2+2 makes 4. If that is granted, all else follws"-Winston, 1984
Keep flyin', and remember, THEY can't take the sky from US!

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Tuesday, December 9, 2003 4:13 AM

SOUTHERNMERC

Hehe, very funny Succatash. I have heard that as well, and I believe it plays out.

As for the bit about misspelling words T, I don't know about that, but I have, myself, spoken more quickly than I could express properly. Words run together, one thought barging out before the first is finished. Stuff like that. I had to practice thinking about what I was going to say, about one sentance ahead, to make sure I didn't sound like a complete backbirth. Or a looney. I have heard of other gifted types with odd habits. Like the guy who flossed his digestive tract. Brilliant fellow, but thats just plain weird.

Jayne: "How big a room?"

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Tuesday, December 9, 2003 9:52 AM

BARNEYT

I've no mind for word puzzles at all - does anyone know if there are any anagrams out there where the two words have the same first and last letter but the middle ones are in a different order?

oh... okay... just staring at the emoticons has given me my answer...

smile
slime

so presumably the brain does recognise some differences

Although I agree - I had no trouble at all reading the post!

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"I think the right place to start is to say, fair is fair. This is who we are. These are our numbers." Mr Willis of Ohio - The West Wing

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Tuesday, December 9, 2003 12:01 PM

RKWALSH

That's great news i will never have to go through the tedium of spell check again since i usually get at tleast the first and last letters right. Yeah for me

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Thursday, December 11, 2003 2:47 AM

TEELABROWN

That happens to me. But, I talk fast when really excited, so no understands what I'm saying. At school, though, even if I talk slowley, they don't listen, so I say what's the point of talking slow?

Keep flyin'!

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"Freedom is the Freedom to say that 2+2 makes 4. If that is granted, all else follws"-Winston, 1984
Keep flyin', and remember, THEY can't take the sky from US!

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Thursday, December 11, 2003 3:46 AM

ASTRIANA

Quote:
Originally posted by SouthernMerc:
Hehe, very funny Succatash. I have heard that as well, and I believe it plays out.

As for the bit about misspelling words T, I don't know about that, but I have, myself, spoken more quickly than I could express properly. Words run together, one thought barging out before the first is finished. Stuff like that. I had to practice thinking about what I was going to say, about one sentance ahead, to make sure I didn't sound like a complete backbirth. Or a looney.

My husband's biggest beef is that I'm thinking so fast that I talk too fast and my brain jumps to the next thought, causing me to interrupt myself mid-sentence with another, totally unrelated thought...

~A~

Take my love, Take my land
Take me where I cannot stand.
I don't care, I'm still free
You can't take the sky from me.

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Sunday, January 11, 2004 3:10 PM

LADYJAYNE

Yep. This is very true. This is why in education today there is a big push for kids to learn "high frequency words" so that they can read on sight rather than having to sound out everything. Teach them the words that appear most often first, which in English are pronouns and prepositions.

It's also why a lot of current reading ed revolves around rhyming words, or "word families" as they call them for Kindergarteners and 1st graders. Let them learn words in groups that have the same endings. -an: fan, can, tan, etc. If they can see the same ending that they already know, they only have to worry about how the first letter sounds.

--Kala

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Sunday, January 11, 2004 4:50 PM

JASONZZZ

LadyJayne, being a teacher yourself.
I've got a couple of questions.

Do you prefer that kids come in (to the
school system) having learned phonics
or something similar to it?

What do you normally do when a parent
disagrees with a particular teaching
system or method?

Quote:
Originally posted by ladyjayne:
Yep. This is very true. This is why in education today there is a big push for kids to learn "high frequency words" so that they can read on sight rather than having to sound out everything. Teach them the words that appear most often first, which in English are pronouns and prepositions.

It's also why a lot of current reading ed revolves around rhyming words, or "word families" as they call them for Kindergarteners and 1st graders. Let them learn words in groups that have the same endings. -an: fan, can, tan, etc. If they can see the same ending that they already know, they only have to worry about how the first letter sounds.

--Kala

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Sunday, January 11, 2004 5:47 PM

LADYJAYNE

Well, I'm not a teacher yet. I'm doing my student teaching.

As for your first question, do I think children need to know phonics before coming into school: not particularly. That's what school is for, to teach them how to read. Do I think it's helpful if they've had lots of opportunities to look at reading materials and have lots of books read to them? Absolutely! The more exposure kids have to print, the better. What's even more important is exposing them to books that they enjoy, laugh at, and love. They need to discover that reading should be pleasurable, not painful.

As for dealing with parents who disagree with methods, it's not something I have had to deal with at all yet. One thing teachers try to do today, however, is use a variety of teaching methods. Understanding that not every method of teaching works for every child is a very important part of becoming an educator.

--Kala

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Sunday, January 11, 2004 8:41 PM

NICKTESLA

Quote:
Originally posted by TeelaBrown:
I go to a "gifted" school (aka smart people school), and I heard that "gifted" kids are more likely to misspell something oon the board because their mind is moving faster than their hand. Very odd.

A Ha--now I can prove how smart I am--through my creative typos!

I know I prefer typing to longhand when I write anything more than an outline. If I do write in longhand, then transcribe it, I always wind up changing it--writing from my memory of those notes rather than actually reading/typing them verbatim.

Nick Tesla
http://tesla-pc.com
Computing that makes sense.

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Monday, February 2, 2004 3:36 PM

FIRELILY

pretty cool.
Here's more info if you're interested
http://www.snopes.com/language/apocryph/cambridge.asp

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Friday, February 20, 2004 9:11 PM

ROCKETJOCK

"Us hate beauty. Us love ugliness. Is big crime make anything perfect on Bizzaro world."

RocketJock

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Sunday, February 22, 2004 1:46 PM

KRYSTOPHER

Quote:
Originally posted by TeelaBrown:
That happens to me. But, I talk fast when really excited, so no understands what I'm saying. At school, though, even if I talk slowley, they don't listen, so I say what's the point of talking slow?

Keep flyin'!

I talk just to hear myself talk... and annoy those gorram Niao se dub doo gway around me... *cough*EnglishClass*cough*

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Watch your steps in the dark and beware of where you wander, because you do not want me to appear behind you in a dark, deserted alley way...

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Tuesday, March 16, 2004 10:34 AM

SIGMANUNKI

I didn't go to a gifted school but I tend to misspell words quite often (my yahoo spell check is my saviour). Beyond that I tend to think so quick (I think it's because of that) that when I go back to re-read my message I some times have left out entire sentences or even portions of paragraphs.

From what my wife tells me, it's because I think to fast and my brain tends to jump from shiny thought to some other shiny thought and I don't notice it. Apparently it gets worse when I get tired.

All this has resulted in having to spend (some times) more that 30 min going over emails/posts/etc to fill in the blanks enough that I'm comfortable submitting it. This one is a 10-15 min one.

I guess some of us are wired differently, eh! It'd be a boring world if it weren't that way

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If you truly love the memory, you must set it free()!

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Tuesday, March 23, 2004 10:13 AM

JARED

boy, its good to see im in perfect company. and knowing that others leave out whole sentences.. im still sticking to single words, usually unimportant ones (the ones that are so obvious its wasted effort to actually write them.. or so my sub conciousness must be thinking).

and guilty of the backbirth thing. mixing synonyms because in the middle of it you just decided to use the other word, jumps in midsentence.. dont you just love associative thinking? two things are connected in your head and its a simple logical step for you.. and a completely weird jump for anyone else.

good thing im not tired yet. even I notice how weird my thoughts become when im tired. and you know youre in trouble when you start mixing object oriented programming with life partners (ok, when im tired i try to apply programming rules to pretty much everything).

reminds of something thats supposed to reveal shizophrenic tendencies: what do an old couple and a table have in common?

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Tuesday, March 23, 2004 11:11 AM

MILORADELL

I'm a rabid speller, corrector, etc - guess it comes from when I was an editing intern for a publisher. As far as long-hand goes - I drop all my vowels. I blame it on Urdu!! Really, sir, I'm not lazy at all!!

As long as the syntax works, I find just about anything is readable, no matter how horrible the spelling is. But maybe because my little brother (ok, he's 30 - maybe I should stop calling him that?) has got to be the worst speller ever. I grew up with it

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Those who will not reason
Perish in the act:
Those who will not act
Perish for that reason.

W.H. Auden

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Tuesday, March 23, 2004 3:28 PM

SIGMANUNKI

Quote:
Originally posted by Jared:
...two things are connected in your head and its a simple logical step for you.. and a completely weird jump for anyone else.

It's interesting for us, but, not for the students I taught

I probably wasted alot of in class time on side issues, but, some liked it.

Anyway, since I'm a programmer too, maybe it's something that's common in the industry?

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If you truly love the memory, you must set it free()!

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Tuesday, March 23, 2004 9:54 PM

JARED

one reason why i would never want to be a teacher.. no patience and im horrible in explaining (though if i try you end up knowing bits and pieces of at least 4 different topics ,-) )

maybe we just have to be a little weird to actually enjoy programming. all that time cursing and yelling at the screen that it should do what we programmed.. just to sooner or later realize youre an idiot and it DID exactly that all the time. thank god for ati and their drivers, finally a lot of the time its not my fault anymore *hehe*

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