h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I've started reading words that aren't there quite a lot.

When I'm reading a sentence, my eye will grab one or two letters of a word, and make a new one up to fill the place.

I've done this about five times today, and it's getting annoying. At its worst it can be a bit of a Rohschach test, that really makes you wonder about what's going on in your own head.

Like, take that thread on Ask - "Planck length and the expanding universe."

I'm just after looking at it and wondering what possessed someone to start a thread called "Penis length and the expanding universe".

I'm cracking up, I think!

This is something that's plagued me for years. I think I've mentioned before that I was reading a page of a book out in English class at school and substituted the word 'after' for 'before' in the sentence "Shortly before his death he made a will.", which, obviously, created a good deal of mirth (for my classmates) and embarrassment (for me).

It's happened recently too - I remember saying "I thought your post said..." within the last month or two someone... Sho, I think.

I'd love to be a voiceover artist, a continuity announcer, an audiobook reader, a newscaster, someone who reads books for blind people, but it'd be a minefield with this affliction

And then there's that missing-out-words-in-posts thing

It happens to me a lot too (word substitution) which is a pain on my current philosophy course.

And now I have it in the "is your luggage distinctive?" which I have spent a week reading as "is your language distinctive?"

I just read that as "is your luggage defective" which I think proves it happens to us all

I don't know - who *is* your luggage detective?

Sherlock Holmes, of course in: The case of detecting the defective case

Maybe its a conditioned transferance left over from last summer's 'textmess' problem.

Once bit, twice shy.

I didn't get the language directive. Could someone frogmarch it to me please?

I would lend you mine, but I don't have a fobwatch!

Damn it!

I just saw this sentence on Wired's twitter feed.

"These stunning polar photos tell a haunting story of climate change http://wrd.cm/14opRbj "


I read it as "These stunning solar photos tell..."

There was an image of two icebergs in the post and I still read the word "solar". What the hell is a "solar photo"!? I have a degree in photography. I know there is a technique called solarization, but the image obviously had nothing to do with that. I briefly thought about pinhole cameras for no particularly good reason.

BAH!

The first thing 'solar photo' brings to mind for me is one of those false colour pictures of the sun you see on spaceweather.com

Yeah. But there were icebergs in the picture... in a way quite different than solar photos.


I also couldn't help but think that every outdoor, daytime image is a "solar photo" in a sense. Sort of like how every non-wheeled cupboard is stationary.

You asked "What the hell is a solar photo"? That's what 'solar photo' means to me

I wasn't asking. I was quoting my internal dialogue.

Ah. Perhaps you should have used that 'Internal Dialogue Font' so that I'd have known. You know, like the 'Sarcasm' font that also doesn't exist

Will you two Texans please stop fighting before the guns are drawn?

Texan? Moi?

"I didn't get the language directive. Could someone frogmarch it to me please?" [TC]

What's this about a laundry direction? Is the spin cycle going the wrong way again?

>>"These stunning polar photos tell a haunting story of climate change http://wrd.cm/14opRbj "<<

yeah - I read These stunning polar bears tell a haunting story of climate change...