who cares about spelling if you can read fast? :)

[miriam_e]

Found this while wandering about the net. It is a genuine advertisement.

My curse is to see spelling mistakes everywhere, except in my own text.
(That isn't to say I don't make spelling mistakes, I just find it hard to pick them up in my own text.)

Comments

[lirion.livejournal.com]

Part of me wonders - and I might be giving them too much credit - if it's a genuine mistake or if it's intentional. I remmebre in school at some point there was an exercise where they presented a sign - wish i could remember what it said - where one of the words had been repeated. None of us saw the second word on the first read through. Given they are advetising speed reading, maybe it's a clever ploy?

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes. I've seen that too. :)



People tend not to see the repeated "the".

[lirion.livejournal.com]

Yeah exactly :)

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

Heheheheh :) Could be a deliberate mis-spell...using the same spelling for both "speed" and "read"... but I doubt it. It made more sense for the "Beatles" where there was at least a pun to play with. :)
My eye keeps inserting an "r" after the "Sp" to make "Spread Reading", which is just silly. (It might be because I've been reading about spread spectrum encoding lately... the central idea of which, incidentally, was patented by famous actress Hedy Lamar.)

[lirion.livejournal.com]

Was more thinking that when you speed read your brain is mroe likely to fill in the correct blanks for context - the first time I looked at the ad I saw speed, but I knew there was a mispelling so I went back and looked carefully. But if I were to be speed reading, maybe my brain would gloss over such things in order to retain amximum input in minimal time...