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Topic: use your brain ! hey ? what brain ?
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Colonel Klink
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posted July 11, 2002 11:31
try this little test and tell me if it's the same for you english-speaking fellas.Without cheating, in 10 sec max count how many F's there are in the little text below : quote:
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FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE-
SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIF-
IC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE
EXPERIENCE OF YEARS
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Done ? So, how many F's did you find ?
3 I guess.
There were 6 F's actually. he fact is that our brain doesn't take the "OF"s into account.
Unbelievable, isn't it ? If you got 6 F's you're a genius (but don't say that to your teachers  )
Getting 4 or 5 is rare.
Common people get 3 F's Now who's got a brain, huh ?
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Ewan
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posted July 17, 2002 06:41
You must often have thought English spelling is unnecesarily difficult. Just look at
words like Cough, Plough, Rough, Through and Thorough. The writer Bernard Shaw
wanted us to change our alphabet, and someone worked out a way of doing it.
In the first year, for example, we would suggest using “s” instead of soft “c”.
Sertainly all students in all sities of the land would reseive this news with joy. Then the
hard “c” would be replased by “k” sinse both letters are pronounsed alike. Not only
would this klear up the konfusion in the minds of spellers, but keyboards kould all be
built with one less letter.
There would be great exsitement when it was at last announsed that the troublesome
“ph” would henseforth be written “f”. This would make words like Fotograf twenty
per sent shorter in print.
In the third year, publik interest in a new alfabet kan be expekted to have reatshed a
point where more komplikated tshanges are nesessary. We would suggest removing
double leters whitsh have always ben a nuisanse and a deterent to akurate spelling.
We would al agre that the horible mes of silent “e’s” in our language is disgraseful.
Therfor, we kould drop thes and kontinu to read and writ merily along as though we
wer in an atomik ag of edukation. Sins by this tim it would be four years sins anywun
had used the letter “c”, we would then suggest substituting “c” for “th.”
Kontinuing cis proses year after year, we would eventuali hav a reali sensibl writen
languag. After twenti years wi ventyur tu sa cerwud bi no mor uv ces teribl trublsum
difikultis. Even Mr. Yaw wi beliv wud be hapi in ce noleg cat his drims finali kam tru.- From The Reader’s Digest Junior Treasury 1960 Bizarrely, having just got this from it, it then fell open on a page where, sandwiched
between “The Secret Life Of The Salmon” and “Rolf, The Dog Who Finds Things” lay
the very same test on it that David first posted. Which I thought was a bit weird.
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