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  2. Missing letter effect - Wikipedia

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    The missing letter effect is more likely to appear when reading words that are part of a normal sequence, than when words are embedded in a mixed-up sequence (e.g. readers asked to read backwards). [5] Despite the missing letter effect being a common phenomenon, there are different factors that have influence on the magnitude of this effect.

  3. Wikipedia:Too long; didn't read - Wikipedia

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    Too long; didn't read (abbreviated TL;DR and tl;dr) is a shorthand to indicate that a passage is too long to invest the time to digest it. [3] Akin to Wall of text . The label is often used to point out excessive verbosity or to signify the presence of and location of a short summary in case the page is too long and won't otherwise be read. [ 4 ]

  4. Bixby letter - Wikipedia

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    The Bixby letter in the Boston Evening Transcript. The Bixby letter is a brief, consoling message sent by President Abraham Lincoln in November 1864 to Lydia Parker Bixby, a widow living in Boston, Massachusetts, who was thought to have lost five sons in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

  5. Interior with a Man Reading a Letter and a Woman Sewing

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    Due in part to the 'Great age of letter writing', the act of writing and thus reading a letter was increasing in popularity and still quite a significant event. [1] [2] De Hooch began his career with the painting of scenes called "Koortegardje", a bastardization of the French term, "Corps de garde", meaning guard house.

  6. Garden-path sentence - Wikipedia

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    The garden-path sentence effect occurs when the sentence has a phrase or word with an ambiguous meaning that the reader interprets in a certain way and, when they read the whole sentence, there is a difference in what has been read and what was expected. The reader must then read and evaluate the sentence again to understand its meaning.

  7. 50 Puzzling Pics That Need To Be Looked At Twice To ... - AOL

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    That is until they see something seriously confusing, like a dog with six legs, only to realize that it wasn’t much more than an optical illusion.It’s also not uncommon for people to take ...

  8. Learning the Game Like any artful player, however, Watson developed a sense of when to hold, to fold or to play. Watson knew the Toronto answer could be big-time bust, so it wagered a mere $947.

  9. Wikipedia:Please clarify - Wikipedia

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    To ask for clarification for a particular phrase or sentence, simply type {} or {} (after the phrase or sentence) to display a superscripted tag (the tag will link here): This is a confusing sentence, which needs readers to apply much energy and time in order to understand the implicit meanings behind it, and needs to be clarified/rewritten.