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Posted on 07/19/2009 3:27:23 PM PDT by Lorianne
I was under the impression that C-E-S-S-P-I-T was the correct spelling
Years ago I knew an elderly gentleman who had been a telegrapher for the railroads in his youth. He said that he could easily carry on a conversation while listening to a code transmission and typing it out on a typewriter. Of course, when he got done, he had no idea what he had just typed.
“Years ago I knew an elderly gentleman who had been a telegrapher for the railroads in his youth. He said that he could easily carry on a conversation while listening to a code transmission and typing it out on a typewriter. Of course, when he got done, he had no idea what he had just typed.”
Many CW operators can just let the subconscious operate the key, this results in some strange text sometimes :-) this is similar to various phenomena grouped under the label “idiomotor effect”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideomotor_effect.
This elderly gentleman was performing a similar subconscious feat it seems.
Sounds like you almost saw Cleveland that day ;-)
No, but sometimes yunz sure talk funny.................must be a 'Burgh thang.
In related news, I was listening to a local talk show the other night, and the topic, of course, was politics. So this guy calls in and starts saying how intelligent Democrats are and then referred to the idiocy of Republicans, only he pronounced it as i-di-o-di-cy, with five syllables instead of four. To give you a better phonetic example of how it sounded: idiodyssey, with that last part sounding exactly like the word odyssey, as in voyage or quest.
The host interrupted him and said, excuse me, did you say i-di-o-di-cy?" And the guy said yes, the i-di-o-di-cy of the Republicans.
The host just laughed, as I'm sure his listeners were, including me, and then went to a break.
Perfect! LMAO!
http://pittsburgh.about.com/od/about_pittsburgh/a/spelling.htm
Pittsburgh, named by General John Forbes in honor of Sir William Pitt, has officially ended in an ‘h’ since its founding in 1758 with the exception of the time period from 1890-1911. In 1890, President Benjamin Harrison established the 10-man U.S. Board on Geographic Names to help restore order to the naming of cities, towns, rivers, lakes, mountains and other places throughout the U.S. At the time, some states actually had as many as five different towns with the same name which, understandably, caused confusion.
One of the first codes established by the new Board to help restore order to U.S. place names was that the final ‘h’ should be dropped from the names of all cities and towns ending in ‘burgh.’ The proud citizens of Pittsburgh, considering their town an obvious historical exception to this ruling, refused to give in to the Board’s ruling and mounted a campaign to keep the traditional spelling. Twenty years later, in 1911, the Board finally relented and restored the ‘h’ to Pittsburgh. To this day people remain confused.
Or just “IT’S-THE-PITS.”
PUBBURGH?
I certainly didn't get the idea that this "feat" was anything unusual, but rather that it was typical of people who transcribed code transmissions to a typed page for hours on end, day after day.
I type and I have trained in the code. As another Freeper pointed out, as you gain skill, certain small words become recognizable as "units" of sound. One example would be the word "there", which is [ - .... . ._. . ]
When I type, I can type this word, "there", rather automatically. But what is interesting is that I sometimes type "their" by accident. Somehow my mind recognizes that these two words have the same sound and chooses the wrong one. If I don't proofread carefully, it ends up looking like I don't know any better.
HA! :-)
When I worked for a Southern California lab of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in the late 1970s, my boss had a secretary who could transcribe her shorthand perfectly while carrying on a conversation. I know because she did it while talking to me and transcribing my review, which she finished and handed to me while we chatted.
That's even more impressive, I think, since it is hard to imagine that the secretary spent all of her time doing that job. Perhaps her skill level was gained during even earlier years when virtually all business correspondence and record-keeping would have been carried out using type-written documents.
Impressive? It was astonishing. If I hadn’t been standing right there watching her, I would never have believed it.
But later when I took typing class, I realized that it’s possible, but I never got as proficient at it as she did. And a lot of people who type a lot or use a stenotype (court-reporter’s) machine can do it too.
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