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<div>Yes, interesting stuff.</div>
<div>URL references - including the ones you sent in, Kerin, can be
found at</div>
<div
>http://science.slashdot.org/science/03/09/15/2227256.shtml?tid=133<span
></span>&tid=134&tid=186</div>
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<div>As well as background sketches from Nature, among others, on
language perception :</div>
<div>http://www.nature.com/nsu/990429/990429-2.html</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>I remember cognitive tasks on language performance vis-à-vis
speech perception and language recognition from way-back-when I was
studying psycholinguistics. That is, the highly developed aptitude,
among native language users, for language anticipation and recognition
from garbled or partially concealed texts as well as through voice
reproduction e.g. telephone, radio, &c. I think (but am not
certain) the retrieval rate was successful for up to 60% of missing
language information. And,conversely, the amount that could be
misunderstood by native users, depending on the cognitive interference
when semantic processing was disrupted or attention was divided by
competing incoming data. The classic example is Cherry's 1953 (?)
'cocktail party' tests. I learned this as 'les expériences de la
filature' but the English term, I believe, is language
'shadowing'.</div>
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<div>What was interesting, as well, is that someone has come up with a
Perl script to convert normal text into garbled text as seen in that
paragraph where all but the firts and last letters are scrambled.
Which leads one to think that the reverse might be useful for certain
language dysfunctions - were they to function that way. But as
one whose language performance reveals increasingly dysfunctional, if
not dyslexic behaviour, this is not the case (for me, at least) and I
must sort out meanings and work out corrections word by word by
word.</div>
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<div>Coincidentally, I also received a snippet forwarded from someone
on the Humanist list that wondered aloud</div>
<div>'... if QWERTY and Dvorak keyboards produce typos of different
import and if touch typists are prone to making different keyboard
infelicities than two finger typists. Multilingual writers? Any
research? '</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>Touching, as well, on language performance and semantic
interference and the privileging of data ; in this instance,
processing information while juggling imput and automatic behaviour
with the improvisation each second demands.</div>
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<div>The snippet continued with references to automatic text
generation, if anyone is interested. I've yet to suss it all out.
:</div>
<div>' automatic funging on MOOs of which note Katherine Parrish's
work MOOLIPO</div>
<div>http://www.meadow4.com/moolipo/</div>
<div><br></div>
<div><font face="Lucida Grande" size="-1" color="#000000">'To truly
experience subjectivity constituted by language, and to examine the
algorithms that govern that language, one must examine one's own
algorithms.' The next stage of the MOOlipo project is develop a
feature that will allow the user to code MOOlipian algorithms on to
the verbs that make up their character.</font></div>
<div><font face="Lucida Grande" size="-1"
color="#000000">[...]</font></div>
<div><font face="Lucida Grande" size="-1" color="#000000">The
operation I performed on my character feels akin to the carnal art of
Orlan or Stelarc. Having spent the greater part of this year working
and researching while inhabiting the skin of my online character, it
feels dangerous to muck with her in this way.</font></div>
<div><font face="Lucida Grande" size="-1"
color="#000000">[...]</font></div>
<div><font face="Lucida Grande" size="-1" color="#000000">"The
machine is us, our processes, an act of our embodiment."<br>
-Donna Haraway</font><font size="-1"> '</font></div>
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<div>and her paper on automatic poetry generation</div>
<div>http://www.meadow4.com/cybertext/autopres.html '</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>cheers,</div>
<div>m.</div>
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<div>Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 15:22:10 -0400</div>
<div>From: "P. Kerim Friedman"
<kerim.list@oxus.net></div>
<div><br></div>
<div><font face="Palatino" color="#333333">For those of you who've
received this e-mail passing around the web:</font></div>
<div><font face="Palatino" color="#333333"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Palatino" color="#333333">"Aoccdrnig to a
rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr
the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and
lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and
you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed
ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe."</font></div>
<div><font face="Palatino" color="#333333"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Palatino" color="#333333">And wanted to know more,
there are some interesting blog posts about "visual word
recognition" that are worth reading, and full of useful
links:</font></div>
<div><font face="Palatino" color="#333333"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Palatino"
color="#333333">http://www.bisso.com/ujg_archives/000224.html</font></div
>
<div><font face="Palatino"
color="#333333">http://www.bisso.com/ujg_archives/000227.html</font></div
>
<div><font face="Palatino"
color="#333333">http://www.languagehat.com/archives/000840.php</font></div
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