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Typically, in the Western world, people read words one at a time from left-to-right.

Are certain people, irrespective of geographic location, capable of processing multiple words or even paragraphs on a page simultaneously?

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>> No.12094271

>>12094255
There are some people who claim they can do this, and there are some other people who claim they can't do this and pay enough attention to understand a text. I'm part of the later.

>> No.12094272

>>12094255
No thats retarded. Language is syntactical and requires progressive unfolding of meaning. They might be able to read very quickly but this basic stream is unavoidable. Maybe at most some common compound phrases can be recognized at a glance

>> No.12094747

>>12094255
There's something about this fucking gif, it's an indescribable feeling, all I know is that I want this particular woman.

>> No.12094753

>>12094747
Just realize that she had a team of experts telling her to move in that particular way, and several takes were made in order to get her looking as attractive as possible in the span on those few seconds.

>> No.12094758

>>12094747
>wanting grimes
lmaoing @ yr life
>>12094753
Acting feminine is not that difficult, this is probably one of the few times that she doesn't look 1/10.

>> No.12094819

>>12094272
>Maybe at most some common compound phrases can be recognized at a glance
This is how I read. Many writers don't fall into such easy patterns, but you can read most genre fiction and some literary fiction just by recognition of commonly put together words.

>> No.12094889

Wouldn't this be more easily done in a symbolic written language, like the japs have?

>> No.12094892

>>12094889
From that point of view it still works the same, even though a language such as Japanese has a different structure.

>> No.12095159

>>12094753
ANd it still didn’t work

>> No.12095172

>>12094255
faggot grimesposter

>> No.12095367

>>12094747
daddy Elon already hit that piece of ass, you're late to the party, boy-o

>> No.12095426

>>12094255
>people read words one at a time from left-to-right.
I don't. With simple writing like a newspaper or genre fiction I tend to chunk the whole sentence and 'swallow it whole' as it were. I only read word by word if the sentences are too complex to get in one go

>> No.12095689

>>12094255
Im Korean and I can read Korean text diagonally. It sort of works like peripheral vision where your eyes scan the block of text in a certain path and I can pick up words and phrases that are outside the path of my eyes. My English reading is a snail crawl though.

>> No.12095696

>>12094747
I was just thinking the same thing. something inside of me is stirring