From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272739AbTHSQyG (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2003 12:54:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272702AbTHSQxQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2003 12:53:16 -0400 Received: from h80ad2795.async.vt.edu ([128.173.39.149]:29063 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S275364AbTHSQTL (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2003 12:19:11 -0400 Message-Id: <200308191619.h7JGJ5Vq000449@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.6.3 04/04/2003 with nmh-1.0.4+dev To: Jonathan Lundell Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [OT] 'the the' in mails ... In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 19 Aug 2003 09:10:12 PDT." From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <20030819012411.GA30871@www.13thfloor.at> <1061299931.30565.40.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_591840736P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 12:19:05 -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --==_Exmh_591840736P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 09:10:12 PDT, Jonathan Lundell said: > At 2:32pm +0100 8/19/03, Alan Cox wrote: > >On Maw, 2003-08-19 at 02:24, Herbert P=F6tzl wrote: > >> I know this is absolutely off topic, but > >> about 30 threads, in the last two months, > >> on lkml contain this strange construct, > >> and I'm worried that I miss something very > >> important ... > > > >Its a very common typo, especially at the end of a line. > = > ...where for some reason it tends to be invisible. Darn, my reply to this to Dave didn't go to the list, soo... The field of "cognitive perception" deals with issues like this.. http://www.geocities.com/woras.geo/TASK.htm http://ibs.derby.ac.uk/~kpat/Israel_cognitive/introduction.shtml Basically, the average human mind is *very* good at discarding/altering input that "doesn't make sense", and preconceived notions will over-ride = what you actually see. This is why good proofreaders are so hard to find - mo= st of us will simply ignore that second "the" because it doesn't parse. --==_Exmh_591840736P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQE/Qk34cC3lWbTT17ARAs2VAKCJwrkcjjVOPhISj0egXHnXrhZbFACgxs5e qN6zpGfWvTcSLSGyocogjrI= =4wfu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_591840736P--