Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch: I never knew this place existed. I never knew it was real. And now that I know, there is nothing I can do about it because I could never say it or spell it. This guy, however, should be given some kind of award: I was also thinking about how cool it would look on a Canadian letter mailed.…
Tag: language
Typoglycemia and Speed Reading
Today I was thinking about the mind and how typos can be easily read and understood by people of the same mother tongue. I finally found the example by searching the keywords ‘ESL, typos, understand, native,”. Here is a good summary of what’s up with typoglycemia What jumped out at me was the explanation of why ‘they’ think it happens.…
Why the Crapital Letters?
So there I am typing an email to someone who sits somewhere between a friend, an acquaintance and a business partner. I had begun the email typing very quickly, not even taking the time to hit the shift key to capitalize his name. At the end of the email, as is customary, I nailed the shift key and typed my…