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RE: RE: Single Spacing, Double Spacing, and Doing It Ones Own Way
Subject:RE: RE: Single Spacing, Double Spacing, and Doing It Ones Own Way From:"Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:13 May 2004 17:17:55 GMT
I don't know about that one. It seems to me that eye
movement is a learned reflex and therefore will vary
from reader to reader depending upon how one is
taught to read, and that all punctuation, whether
developed by professionals or amateurs, is still
a "typographical and linguistic trick to guide the
reading process." The only thing about it that "bugs"
me is people who insist on arguing that their preference
provides a real, practical benefit over someone else's
without any verifiable data to back them up.
Gene Kim-Eng
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On Thu, 13 May 2004 12:23:42 -0400 David Chinell wrote:
Donna:
I've said before, and I'll repeat it here, that people read
with their bodies, not with their minds. By that I mean that
the process of reading is more dominated by one's physiology
than by one's thought processes. That's why I pay close
attention to studies on eye movement, especially when they
are combined with measurements of comprehension.
This is a long-winded way of leading up to ...
Does it bug anyone else that "amateurs" want to use
typographical and linguistic tricks to guide the reading
process as if the conscious mind was controlling the
reader's eyes?
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