Accordion to a recent survey, replacing words with the names of musical instruments in a sentence often goes undetected.
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OT: You'll have to read this more than once...
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Not if you have ever done any proof reading you won't.
Colin Bignell
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I spotted the squeezebox immediately.
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It got me.
Bill
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LOL. Got me on the first read through.
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Only took the first three words
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Once was enough
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Only got it 3rd time!
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Blowing your own trumpet?
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Got me!
I once read that your eyes only scan the top half of printed letters.
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I suspect that was a one-off flute and if you tried it again it wouldn't work.
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Got it in one, but then I?m generally quite quick to notice when anyone does violins to the language.
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Jon Fairbairn put finger to keyboard:
Do you parade that ability as some sort of status cymbal?
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No you need to let a text to speech system read it just once. I spotted accordion straight away. So piccolo the bones out of that.
Brian
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The mind and eyes see what you 'think' it is.
Don't know if you've seen this, but I think its cool:
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I spotted Accordion immediately. This text - well, I can read it, but slowly. Normally read several words, then move my eyes and read a few more - reading paperback fiction I read a line in 3 lumps.
With that stuff I have to read every word.
Andy
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*it doesn't*
Owain
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I first saw this as a tweet - so nothing other than the text. It could be my heading prepared the mind somewhat for it.
It took me three readings to get it. ;-)
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Read my reply in conjunction with the subject, not the content.
Colin Bignell
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I'm fed up with "recent survey" jokes.