Brain game

[Tim Vaughan]

Count the "F's" in the following text, you have 5-10 seconds:




FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE-

SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIF-

IC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE

EXPERIENCE OF YEARS...

Post your answers.

[Symphony]

Four fs.


   

[Sulfurdolphin]

 I counted 5 F's.

Michael

[Alnilam]

3

[Willowbirch]

Just 3.  

[Evangelist]

Fiiiivvvvvveeeeeee.

But when Skerry Kerry looked, he said: " Well, if you're conservative, and I'm with you, you know, there's just 3, but I'm going to have my aides give the problem a thorough going-over and get back to you later....it could be that there are as few as 1, or as many as 7 or 8, but I do want you to know that I feel your pain, and I'm absolutely with you on whatever it takes so that YOU have the final right to choose whatever you like!"

[nChrist]

Evangelist,

       ROFL - Brother - I needed that laugh!

[Symphony]

Yes, I see now there are five.

[Chesed]

6

[Willowbirch]

I used a word search and found six.   Without modern computer technology, I would be blind.

Evangelist:  

[Willowbirch]

Yes; the audience agrees, the answer is six. Six, six.

[Symphony]

Hmmm, I only count five.  


FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE-      

SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIF-

IC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE

EXPERIENCE OF YEARS...


and I've already violated any time limits - by far.  


*sigh* I waz alwayz the last one finishing tests, too.  


HMMMM.  WAIT!   THERE  ARE  SIX!

I just now noticed another one in the 'ofs'.  


Dumbkopf!

How dumb can you get.    


*sigh*


And I've had to 'study' it too, at least four times, just to 'find' all six.  

*sigh*

It's all for naught.  I'm dumb.  It's true. *sigh*    


But it IS a good game.  Actually a little sophisticated.


How would you know it single out 'fs' as a letter people would repeatedly miss?

Why do we miss them?

Must have something to do with the way our lips pronounce them - linguistics.  

B/c the 'f' in 'of' is pronounced entirely different from the 'f' in 'files', so we miss it completely.

Because we're 'lip' reading, when we try to find them.

I'll betcha that's why.  But TimV ain't here no mo, so we can't ask'm.  


   

[Soldier4Christ]

Hmmm, I only count five.  


FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE-      

SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIF-

IC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE

EXPERIENCE OF YEARS...


and I've already violated any time limits - by far.  


*sigh* I waz alwayz the last one finishing tests, too.  


HMMMM.  WAIT!   THERE  ARE  SIX!

I just now noticed another one in the 'ofs'.  


Dumbkopf!

How dumb can you get.    


*sigh*


And I've had to 'study' it too, at least four times, just to 'find' all six.  

*sigh*

It's all for naught.  I'm dumb.  It's true. *sigh*    


But it IS a good game.  Actually a little sophisticated.


How would you know it single out 'fs' as a letter people would repeatedly miss?

Why do we miss them?

Must have something to do with the way our lips pronounce them - linguistics.  

B/c the 'f' in 'of' is pronounced entirely different from the 'f' in 'files', so we miss it completely.

Because we're 'lip' reading, when we try to find them.

I'll betcha that's why.  But TimV ain't here no mo, so we can't ask'm.  


   

When reading most people do not actually read the word "of".
Our minds for some reason pass over this type of word. Try writing a paragraph sometime using "of" frequently leaving it out in numerous occasions. Most people will not even realise that you left any out because their minds will assume it to be there.

[Willowbirch]

When reading most people do not actually read the word "of".
Our minds for some reason pass over this type of word. Try writing a paragraph sometime using "of" frequently leaving it out in numerous occasions. Most people will not even realise that you left any out because their minds will assume it to be there.

Like Google.

[Symphony]

Hmm, good point.