I agree with the original writer of this chain email (copied below), which I received, this is an easy exercise for most readers. I don't know where it originated, but it illustrates an important point about how we read words. I am sure that example also exist of entire paragraphs being processed this way. Some of grew up when the Evelyn Woods speed-reading course was made popular. I haven't heard much about it recently. I also responded to an info-mercial a few years ago for a course similar to it, which I now have a video tape and cassette tape of.
For those who are able to speed-read understand, the more you read, the more informed you become and eventually if you are fairly well-informed, you begin to recognize concepts that are referred to within a body of writing, which you needn't bother to re-read. This is when your mind is processing paragraphs, even entire pages with just a glance.
Similarly, people who are familiar with a lot of popular songs, such as are placed repeatedly over time, even years, over the airwaves, we learn to recognize them sometimes after the first note. It is pretty incredible.
I recently noticed this while listening to a concert of blues and jazz old-ies as rendered by a premier horn-player, that it didn't matter at all that the songs were not in the format originally rendered. I was amazed at my on previous unconscious abilities to recognize a song within one or two notes of its beginning by simply realizing that it was probably of one of the two genres (jazz or blues) being played at the concert. And I consider my my own musical abilities to be mediocre at best.
Further proof, I think, that both lyrics and music, to say nothing of meter, time, beat, rhythm, and subtle blends thereof, are important elements to human communication, via song. Amazing things these brains they are. Maybe even, could it be, genetically imprinted?
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