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Thread: Creative dyslexia
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Angloid
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I apologise if that title is offensive to genuine dyslexics, but I can't think of another way to describe it. I mean, what happens when you see a word and inadvertenly read another. I often read 'photographers' as 'pornographers'. Today I was just about to put a Morrison's syrup pudding in the microwave when I read the blurb that said it had a 'sickly syrup sauce'. Actually it said sticky, but it was enough to put me off.
Any other examples?
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Sandemaniac
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I received a very apologetic letter of thanks from someone when I pointed out that they'd managed to advertise for an Acocunt Manager...
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Baptist Trainfan
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I came across a review of a Restaurant where the writer had not been too keen on the Ministerials wandering around the place and singing.
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Sandemaniac
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Oh goodness, that remins me of the day I visited my local shop and found all the staff sniggering vigorously at the menu a very fancy local restaurant had circulated.
They were adding a range of Chinese dishes and obviously wanted to make the service particularly personal as the menu included Szechuan Spicy Fuck. ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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Firenze
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Originally posted by Sandemaniac:
the menu included Szechuan Spicy Fuck.
Much as one would like to order that, the actual topic is Things Written Correctly Which Nevertheless Our Brain Reprocesses.
Firenze
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Chorister
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Our church has a 'Prayer and Stillness' Group, which I always read as 'Prayer and Silliness' Group. Perhaps my brain is telling me that would somehow be more fun to join.
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Lucia
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I just read that a seminar would be on "Understanding meditation" which seemed a bit odd until I realised that it actually said "Understanding mediation" which made much more sense in the context!
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Albertus
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I've misread 'apple crumble' on a pub menu as 'nipple crumble'; and 'Winter Wonderland' as 'Pinter Wonderland'- a very chill and lonely festivity, I suppose, with a lot of extended periods of silence.
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Sioni Sais
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As a child I used to wonder why some public conveniences took up entire office blocks, until my mother pointed out that the signs on them read TO LET.
[ 02. April 2013, 14:36: Message edited by: Sioni Sais ]
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Ariel
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The "Reading is a discount ticket" thread always makes me think (even though I know perfectly well it isn't) that it's going to be about trains.
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North East Quine
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Last week a book entitled "Duende in Search of Flamenco" caught my eye, and I looked at it, puzzled, for several minutes trying to figure out why Dundee would be in search of Flamenco.
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Firenze
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Brings to mind a holiday rep in Minorca trying hard to sell us the delight of an evening of flamingo dancing.
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cross eyed bear
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Just the other day, I passed a sign for ' Sugary and dental practice'. It took me a while to work out it actually said 'surgery'.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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My favorite is the sign for Happy Trails Adult RV Resort, which I read at first glance as Happy Trails Adultery Resort.
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Moo
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quote:
Originally posted by Firenze:
Brings to mind a holiday rep in Minorca trying hard to sell us the delight of an evening of flamingo dancing.
I think I might enjoy watching that.
Moo
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balaam
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I hope Heavenly Anarchist does not read this thread. Down in All Saints I read her name as Heavenly Antichrist.
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jedijudy
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My mother, daughter and I are all dyslexic. It can be really funny if we are in the car together and read a billboard wrongly the same way! That actually used to happen a lot when D-U was younger and we traveled together more frequently. I think it's partly the processing, and partly the very short period of time we have to read the sign. (We've been known to turn around to drive by to see what it really said.)
For instance, "If two feet of water can wash your car away..." (a flood insurance ad) looked like, "If your car can wash your two feet".
It can be very entertaining!
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lilBuddha
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There is a thread title down in Ecclesiantics in which my brain replaces the l with an i. ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif)
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Sandemaniac
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Back, I think, to what this thread is really about , I've just read the title of this thread as "Become an Anglican this Sunday" - which conjures up a totally different mental picture. Churchswapping, anyone?
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Boogie
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quote:
Originally posted by Angloid:
I apologise if that title is offensive to genuine dyslexics ...
You didn't offend this genuine dyslexic.
Dyslexics Untie!
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Adeodatus
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Originally posted by Boogie:
Dyslexics Untie!
Took me a couple of seconds ...
This reminds me of a cartoon I once saw. A man shaking a charity collection tin, carrying a big placard saying "DAILY SEX - please give generously". And his wife is saying, "I think you'd better let me spell 'dyslexia', dear."
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Pigwidgeon
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I just was delighted to see a sign saying "Watch for exciting vehicles."
Turns out the word was "exiting."
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St. Gwladys
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Looking at the adverts in Church Times, I was a bit advertising for a priest made a point of
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St. Gwladys
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Sorry!!! Getting used to a new laptop. What I meant to say was that I was surprised to read that one parish advertising for a priest had made a point that it had a good "refrectory". What it was actually describing was its "rectory" I did wonder!
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Sandemaniac
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Over on a photography forum (whose parent magazine the longer-memoried may recall was known as "Amateur Pornographer), I've just read a thread called "Depth of field for portraits" as Depth of field for potatoes.
I think it's Freudian...
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Lothlorien
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The top of the Compose page in Gmail has a phrase "draft autosaved." Totally unprompted by anything I can think of at all, I read that this morning as "draft autoclaved."
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churchgeek
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I saw a (bumper?) sticker (stuck on the pavement, actually - and that my approach meant I was reading it upside down, maybe this is more excusable) that said, "Two waffles are better than four" - or so I thought. Curious in what universe two waffles could possibly be better than four, I looked more closely. It said "wheels," not waffles, and was a pro-bicycling, anti-driving sticker.
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Sir Kevin
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quote:
Originally posted by Baptist Trainfan:
Yes, and they're busdy rebuilding the station at the moment.
I enjoyed the video of the new train shed going up.
I see things funny sometimes, but cannot think of them a day later!
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L'organist
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I've kept every one of my dyslexic children's hand-made birthday cards given to me with "lost and lost of love" ![[Axe murder]](graemlins/lovedrops.gif)
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The Kat in the Hat
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Not quite dyslexia, but did anyone else happen to watch the coverage of Margaret Thatcher's funeral on the BBC News channel (I think)?
I caught some of it in a hospital waiting room. The sound had been turned down which is why I presume the auto-text was on.
Apparently the Chancellor had to wipe a cheer from his face; the congregation sang traditional hens; crowds lined the streets - ten died; and Big Ben was silenced for the first time since Churchill was worried.
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Ariel
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The auto-text is always worth watching. There have been some wonderful moments on it. They probably deserve a thread to themselves.
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Moo
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quote:
Originally posted by Ariel:
The auto-text is always worth watching. There have been some wonderful moments on it. They probably deserve a thread to themselves.
However, if you really need it because you can't hear, it's extremely frustrating.
Moo
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Boogie
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Someone called me stupid and bigoted -
Well I'm not stupid, I'm just dyslexic. And I can't help it if I have big toes.
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Chorister
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I always feel sorry for the poor children named Lousie.
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Nicolemr
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I keep misreading the thread titled "Big body squad" as "Big body squid". Very interesting image there.
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basso
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I also read Heavenly Antichrist whenever I see that shipmate's name.
And Lyda's old strapline 'bareroot floribunda' always looked to me like 'barefoot floribunda'.
(Hi, Lyda!)
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Nicolemr
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Basso, I think I only just now realized that it _wasn't_ "barefoot"!
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Boogie
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Originally posted by Chorister:
I always feel sorry for the poor children named Lousie.
I sat here for ages thinking 'what could be the problem with Louise?' - which proves your point!
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Sir Kevin
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Originally posted by Nicolemr:
Basso, I think I only just now realized that it _wasn't_ "barefoot"!
I should have asked her what it meant last time we met! I am no gardener and the real sig never caught my eye...
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Surfing Madness
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Yesterday morning when I was following the bible reading in church I mis-read Mahanaim as Manhattan. There is a reason why you would never get me to read aloud in church!
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L'organist
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I remember well the Pentecost a reader mistook the list of people who heard in their own language (Acts 2:11) so we had
"Cretins and arabs" ![[Snigger]](graemlins/snigger.gif)
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Jigsaw
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I was reading an article about the singer Mel Torme which described his voice as "The Velvet Frog". Then I looked again and realised it was actually "Velvet Fog".
I still prefer the first version.
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The5thMary
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I get "cavalry" and "Calvary" mixed up every single time I try to write or say either one. Granted, neither word comes up all that often in ordinary conversation but it has happened.
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Boogie
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Originally posted by Jigsaw:
I was reading an article about the singer Mel Torme which described his voice as "The Velvet Frog". Then I looked again and realised it was actually "Velvet Fog".
I still prefer the first version.
Here you go! ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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The5thMary
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quote:
Originally posted by Sir Kevin:
quote:
Originally posted by Baptist Trainfan:
Yes, and they're busdy rebuilding the station at the moment.
I enjoyed the video of the new train shed going up.
I see things funny sometimes, but cannot think of them a day later!
I've put this down here before but I'll share it again. When I get tired I start to get words mixed up when reading and sometimes I have a difficult time speaking... I don't quite stutter but my sentences come out all Yoda like! Anyway, once in college, on a long bus ride home, I fell into a doze, sort of dreaming almost but then the bus would hit a pothole and wake me up... the bus was speeding past a welding equipment store and the sign out front said: "Mig welders for sale", only I read it as "Wig melders for sale". I just couldn't wrap my mind around what a wig melder might be... until the next day after about ten hours of sleep. Ha ha! "Wig melders"! Still makes me laugh.
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