Fascinating topic -- interesting reading! Terri Oda writes: > (1) Even when we read "silently" we actually tend to activate our vocal > chords a bit, so we are *thinking* the sounds which probably helps us to > confuse homophones. Does this happen more for people who tend to think or remember aurally rather than visually? Or is that unconnected? (I tend to learn and remember aurally rather than visually, but I don't seem to have much trouble with homophones. But now I find myself wondering why not?) > (2) There's major evidence for the idea that our brains have entire "action > scripts" set out for common tasks, such as typing common words. (IIRC, we > can type much faster than we can actually think and transmit to fingers with > proper feedback.) That is certainly true. My fingers know how to type certain idioms, such as "grep" or "more", having nothing to do with normal touch-typing skills (I call them idioms because I type most of them with my hands in a different place from what normal touch-typing would dictate). I type these idioms much faster than my normal typing speed. I have a sequence in vi for breaking the current email quote -- o<RET><ESC>O<type new stuff> -- which I got used to doing quickly, and unfortunately vim for some reason doesn't handle it right (you have to wait for a while after typing the final O or else the new text doesn't actually get inserted and vim gets i
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