On 2010-09-20, Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au> wrote: > I don't know about how other people speed-read, but I can assure you that > when my wife speed-reads, she's not just scanning a few words and > interpolating between them. She can give you a detailed summary of what > *actually* happened, not just a good guess. Including pointing out any > spelling or grammatical errors and clumsy writing. *Especially* the > spelling errors, they have about the same effect on her reading speed as > a tree trunk lying across a Formula 1 race track.
Yeah. I think it's because the entire trick is to have a nice smooth pipeline, and the error-checking mechanism has to be pretty alert for that to work -- you have to know if something went wrong. And a spelling error in the text is initially indistinguishable from a reading error in the eye... -s -- Copyright 2010, all wrongs reversed. Peter Seebach / usenet-nos...@seebs.net http://www.seebs.net/log/ <-- lawsuits, religion, and funny pictures http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Game_(Scientology) <-- get educated! I am not speaking for my employer, although they do rent some of my opinions. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list