"Cyli" wrote in message
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On Sat, 7 Jan 2006 16:09:54 +0800, "riverman"
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"Cyli" wrote in message
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On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 21:53:57 -0600, Cyli
wrote:

On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 11:42:10 -0800, "Skwala"
wrote:

There, now. Some of knew you were bright enough to catch us in our
real personas.

Gah. An us between of and knew, please.

Gah! Italicize or use single quotation marks around 'us', 'of' and 'knew',
please!

I figured the rest of you were either smart enough to insert them
mentally or weren't smart enough to have noticed the lack of the word
in the original.


Nice double jeapordy, but there's a strange thing about cognition that has
nothing to do with 'smarts'.

I read your comment first, and it seemed like a jumble of words with no
meaning. So I read the previous post, and sort of had a gist of what it
meant, and then reread yours, still not being able to comprehend it. Then I
re-reread the previous post and noticed that, under close inspection, I was
initially wrong and IT actually didn't make any sense either.

At that point (and I kid you not), I wondered if I had suffered some sort of
mild stroke and suddenly things that should make complete sense were
suddenly nonsensical. I almost called SWMBO over to read the lines to see if
they meant anything to her.

Then I worked through it slowly, and noticed that there seemed to be a word
missing in the first post, and I figured out that it must be 'us', between
'of' and 'knew'. THEN I read your post, and your meaning dawned on me. In
fact, I slowly lost any conception of how it did not make sense to me
before. Now it makes complete sense, but I find that I am inserting the
single quotes mentally.

Anyway, it was a strange experience for me for a bit, and probably not at
all unlike the experience you had reading the first post, eh?

Sort of reminded me of a time my older brother pointed to a lime tree when
we were kids and said 'see all the limes?" and I could not see a single one,
as they were the same shade of green as the leaves. He said "Keep looking,
once you see one, you'll see a million", and I stared and stared, with no
avail. Then he pointed one out to me, and the tree just erupted in
limes...they were EVERYWHERE! And after that, it was impossible to look and
NOT see them, but I sure remember staring and staring and not spotting any.

--riverman

PS: Ann while Bob had had had had had had had had had had had a better
effect on the teacher.