This is so darn old... I thought Slashdot was bleeding edge! Here is the original forward FYI:
Titled: Do Spellings Matter?
"... randomising letters in the middle of words [has] little or no effect on the ability of skilled readers to understand the text. This is easy to denmtrasote. In a pubiltacion of New Scnieitst you could ramdinose all the letetrs, keipeng the first two and last two the same, and reibadailty would hadrly be aftcfeed. My ansaylis did not come to much beucase the thoery at the time was fo
"... randomising letters in the middle of words [has] little or no effect on the ability of skilled readers to understand the text.
For fun turn on closed captioning and watch cable news. Here are a few gems from a CNN report on the death of Teller last week:
"cold war hock"
"nuclear deturnt"
"Loss Alamos"
Although the words are readable, having to translate on the fly makes for some herky jerky reading.
And many more I can't recall. Does anybody know if they type these transcripts live? Wouldn't you think that a taped report could have some kind of spell checker?
Does anybody know if they type these transcripts live?
It depends on the show.
Live segments, like "breaking news" or "on location" stories, are usually captioned as they run. Other parts, like the overview of stories, are sometimes captioned live, and sometimes captioned with the text on the teleprompter. The latter is called Electronic Newsroom (ENR) captioning and is notorious for leaving in phrases like "Toss " which tells who talks next.
The reason captions have errors like that is that captioners ac
Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.
This is old news, here's the original (Score:5, Interesting)
Titled: Do Spellings Matter?
"... randomising letters in the middle of words [has] little or no effect on the ability of skilled readers to understand the text. This is easy to denmtrasote. In a pubiltacion of New Scnieitst you could ramdinose all the letetrs, keipeng the first two and last two the same, and
reibadailty would hadrly be aftcfeed. My ansaylis did not come to much beucase the thoery at the time was fo
Re:This is old news, here's the original (Score:1)
For fun turn on closed captioning and watch cable news. Here are a few gems from a CNN report on the death of Teller last week:
"cold war hock"
"nuclear deturnt"
"Loss Alamos"
Although the words are readable, having to translate on the fly makes for some herky jerky reading. And many more I can't recall. Does anybody know if they type these transcripts live? Wouldn't you think that a taped report could have some kind of spell checker?
Re:This is old news, here's the original (Score:1)