Feb 09, 2012 09:23
When I was little, learning to read, I had a problem. My mother called me a 'lazy reader'. I would glance at the first and last letters in a word or phrase and then guess at the rest based on context. Often I was right, but sometimes I was spectacularly wrong.
I've noticed myself doing again lately - a hardware store advertising that they sold "notary seals" somehow translated in my brain as Navy SEALS and I thought they were having a military promotion. There have been other times although I don't remember them all at the moment. I don't do it while reading any more, but when just glancing around at words in the environment, I totally do it all the time.
Lazy brain.