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A Quick Eye Exam (and an inevitable second reading for revisors) Thread poster: Aurora Humarán (X)
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Aurora Humarán (X) Argentina Local time: 16:44 English to Spanish + ...
A couple of years ago, a friend of mine sent this exam to me. I somehow lost it but fortunately it is in my 'hands' again. For any person this test is really amazing. For us, language professionals, this is something to be taken into account. I am currently attending a two-year career on Revision/Correction and Spanish Grammar, and one of the tips for revisors is reading sentences from the end to the beginning so as to be able to 'read' words without the influence of their co... See more A couple of years ago, a friend of mine sent this exam to me. I somehow lost it but fortunately it is in my 'hands' again. For any person this test is really amazing. For us, language professionals, this is something to be taken into account. I am currently attending a two-year career on Revision/Correction and Spanish Grammar, and one of the tips for revisors is reading sentences from the end to the beginning so as to be able to 'read' words without the influence of their context. In a way, this test has to do with that. Enjoy it! Au Take this Quick Eye Exam... This will blow your mind...! Just do it - don't cheat! Try this it's actually quite good. But don't cheat! Count the number of F's in the following text: FINISHED FILES ARE THE RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS Managed it? Scroll down only after you have counted them! OK? How many? Three? Wrong, there are six - no joke! Read again! FINISHED FILES ARE THE RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS The brain cannot process the word "OF". Incredible... Anyone who counts all six F's on the first go is a genius. Three is normal.
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Sonja Tomaskovic (X) Germany Local time: 21:44 English to German + ...
Anyone who counts all six F's on the first go is a genius.
No, s/he just knew the trick. Sonja | | |
Ana Brause Local time: 16:44 English to Spanish + ...
¡Me tendré que conformar con ser normal!!) Aurora, como siempre tus postings son geniales... saludos desde Montevideo (espero que se diviertan mucho el 15...!!) | | |
NancyLynn Canada Local time: 15:44 Member (2002) French to English + ... MODERATOR What's happening on the 15th? | Apr 11, 2005 |
Excuse my ignorance if it's a national holiday... Nancy | |
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Ana Brause Local time: 16:44 English to Spanish + ... 15th: Powwow in B.A. | Apr 11, 2005 |
No national holiday (yet)... que eso lo decidan nuestros colegas y traductores argentinos ha ha ha cheers!! | | |
Javier Herrera (X) Spanish I got four!! | Apr 11, 2005 |
I saw one of but not the two others. What am I? | | |
Aurora Humarán (X) Argentina Local time: 16:44 English to Spanish + ... TOPIC STARTER
Javier Herrera wrote: I saw one of but not the two others. What am I? I don't know what you are, but we belong to the same group! Au | | |
Özden Arıkan Germany Local time: 21:44 Member English to Turkish + ...
my apologies, but I got six, and I know I'm not a genius. It's probably because English is a foreign language to me, hence 'of's didn't come so naturally, and I didn't skip them. If I had an equivalent of this in my native language, then you should have seen all the things I were missing | |
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gianfranco Brazil Local time: 16:44 Member (2001) English to Italian + ... I knew the trick... and missed | Apr 11, 2005 |
I knew the trick, I had been through this a long ago. I counted very carefully, and... got 5. Missing the OF on line two. Grrrr!!! bye Gianfranco | | |
but I read the text from back to front like you said. Great test. Lucinda | | |
Parrot Spain Local time: 21:44 Spanish to English + ...
But one of my 3 neurons was busy re-styling the phrase (and I believed one of those "OFs" had to go).
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Agnieszka Hayward (X) Poland Local time: 21:44 German to Polish + ...
Gianfranco Manca wrote: I knew the trick, I had been through this a long ago. I counted very carefully, and... got 5. Missing the OF on line two. Grrrr!!! am less embrassed now that Gianfranco admitted to be doing the same thing... | |
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Elena Sgarbo (X) Italian to English + ... |
I got four!!!!! | Apr 12, 2005 |
Am I normal, or what???????? I read ONLY ONE "OF" and I read it twice!!! Oh, My! This is incredible! (as everything Aurora posts!) Thanks! Inés
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Clare Barnes Sweden Local time: 21:44 Swedish to English + ...
...but I looked for the shapes and didn't "read" the words. Is that cheating? (I'd be interested to know, as I'm trying to teach my son to read and I think recognising a word's shape may be just as important as seeing all the letters - any opinions welcome). | | |
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