As the Stroop effect shows, automatic reading can even stop you from doing the thing you’re trying to do (say the colour of the letters, in this case), and you have no way to turn it off! It was even proposed as a way to find Soviet spies by proving if someone could read Russian. The prison of literacy could have put you into a literal prison!
For me, it’s just as impossible to tune out spoken words. I’m going to have to go with Laurie Anderson on this one. Language, it’s a Virus
I think this way about wall decorations that are just vaguely relevant words like “EAT” in people’s kitchens or “LIVE LAUGH LOVE” or “HOME SWEET HOME.” Might be the autism talking but looking at them feels like a message being forcibly injected into my skull and I find them very annoying. Advertisements are even worse and are genuinely infuriating.
English/American ads are always weird to witness. “Buy x now!” “Ask your doctor about x!” “Order now!” in a very direct commanding way. I find the European ads (that I actually notice) to be much more subtle. The maximum I can think of is “If you order now” formulations.
I wonder if there are laws pertaining to this or if it’s a language barrier thing, e. g. because the polite form is too awkward in German.
Like a rune curse on the dungeon wall
He learned to communicate with birds and discovered their conversation was fantastically boring. It was all to do with windspeed, wingspans, power-to-weight ratios and a fair bit about berries. Unfortunately, he discovered, once you have learnt birdspeak you quickly come to realize that the air is full of it the whole time, just inane bird chatter. There is no getting away from it.
also about cats in the neighborhood, the weather, the climate, breeding, soo much breeding omg
bird chipper is mostly about being horny and singing about it … all day, very loudly
that’s not very different from living near people who play loud music
Yeah isn’t that most music?
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I read this. Didn’t understand a lick of it. Not any different than some english-language posts.
There’s no escape.
I like to think there’s still many languages in which I’m completely illiterate. I’m in a prison but my cell has a window with a nice view.
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Maybe it’s just me, but I get unreasonable angry when I have to read “u” and “ur.” I can’t really explain why, but I’d love it if people could write “you” and “your”/“you’re”, is it asking too much for people to add the extra “y” and “o” (or whatever)?
Life is hard. If you wanna relax with your social media chats and just do what’s easy I ain’t mad about it. I like seeing how people communicate when they don’t have to follow every piddley rule. ppl r v creativ with language when they’re allowed to be.
I’m with you.
Whilst I don’t agree with it I do understand why people might want to shorten longer words (eg; whatever to w/eva. Or to be honest as tbh). It saves a tiny bit of time and space.
But when I see u and ur I just think, “this muppet doesn’t know the difference between your/you’re/yaw/yore and therefore just dumbs it down to this shit to cover it up!”Also I used to know a person who would spell anyways as newaizz (sometimes there would be S’s, not zeds).
FFS.
Why? I’ve no fucking idea. It’s the exact same amount of letters, just spelt in a more stupid way!!
That one word being spelt blatantly incorrectly made me seriously judge him and his ideas for years.
Which is on me, really. It’s just that I couldn’t get over it.It’s interesting to me that I get super annoyed at people confusing your and you’re but if I write “ur” I use it for both anyway (and don’t find it weird to read).
nooo people are shy and don’t dare to present their full “you” … they only show a part of themselves
Y tho?
u trippin bro
It dont work because “u trippin bro”'s established.
Admirable fellow, I’m afraid u r acting obtuse.
I was playing overwatch the other day and a random person on my team was yelling at me over and over with a Spanish accent. Really distracting. Since I couldn’t mute him in the middle of a fight, all I did was say ‘no habla’ over mic, and he switched to yelling at twice the speed in Spanish (which I don’t speak) and it immediately got easier to focus lol
I used to work in a spanish company in a tiny office with 4 people, and I found it so easy to tune them out when they were speaking with each other in spanish. Then I worked for a british company, and my concentration just
snowballedtanked“Tanked” might be a better word in this case. “Snowballed” refers to the forming of and accumulation of snow into a ball. Example: If you are having trouble concentrating, you can start small and try to get your concentration to build and “snowball” from there, at which point it will become significantly easier to build on it. If successful, your concentration can be said to have “snowballed.”
oh nice correction, thanks. I was envisioning a snowball cascading down a mountain, dropping in height potential and aggregating in troublesome mass. I’ll change it to tanked though, that does fit better
Just wait till you hear about theory of mind- you just FEEL SHIT because other people talk about their bullshit (unless you’re autistic)
Lol I want to introduce you to customers. Can they read? Probably, but 100% don’t read or look at signage.
Now that you mention it, I have been doing tech support for multiple years and yeah, sometimes I just have to read them the message on the screen.
I do software development but at my work, our logs are so verbose (so many debug messages that should have been removed before submission but weren’t on a process that takes hours to complete, I’ve seen logs in the hundreds of megabytes for a single test) that I pretty much had to relearn how to find and read error messages. There were a few times I debugged “mystery behaviour” and once I had figured it out, suddenly noticed that there was an error message or warning about the exact thing I spent a while debugging. There was so much text that I just stopped really seeing it as text and saw it more as noise.
Automobile drivers are the same way.
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And I even read that multiple times. There is no escape
And let’s not even mention the oppression of culture. We never got to choose our native language.
I don’t get to choose if I understand a word or not. I simply do. What a shitshot
Fuck. I just read this.
This continues even when you learn different scripts. I know the Katakana on an English product is probably going to sound like an English word spoken in a Japanese accent, but I still feel compelled to sound out “aisu kuriimu” (or whatever the written word may be) whenever I see it.
It’s not as automatic as reading in English is, but the compulsion to focus on the written words still exists.
I don’tbread script I don’t understand. Happy Cake Day
Don’t worry, the current regime will free you.
Go somewhere you can’t read the language.
