Actually, I got important, but I think your brain was 'pretuned' to the prefix 'ip', which threw it off.
I think this trick works because the brain takes shortcuts when reading familiar language. Instead of reading letters one by one, it takes it all as a clump and picks out a few 'key' letters to id it. This is enhanced in an environment wrought with spelling errors, like the internte, wher e worsd are frequentlyy juts slightly scrwwed up.
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Date: 2005-05-27 03:42 am (UTC)I think this trick works because the brain takes shortcuts when reading familiar language. Instead of reading letters one by one, it takes it all as a clump and picks out a few 'key' letters to id it. This is enhanced in an environment wrought with spelling errors, like the internte, wher e worsd are frequentlyy juts slightly scrwwed up.