From DAVID BURTON
At a dinner party the other day the following was written down – “Unnuk us
toomda zaiyamt oop ubbliqs pea king” – to make some point or other, but when
it was given to someone to read, he could not understand it at all, even when
he read it out loud. The funny thing was that those around him could
understand what he was saying, and the more he said it, the clearer it sounded
to those around, and the more confused he seemed to become.
This, surely, says something about the way our ears see and our eyes hear
and how our brains process and understand the various data input formats
(under various levels of chardonnays). Much later we typed the phrase into an
Apple computer capable of speaking the written word, and sure enough the
computer made absolute sense – mind you, to be fair, the computer hadn’t had a
drop all evening.
