After becoming vice president for production at Native Kjalii Foods, a maker of salsa and tortilla chips in San Francisco, it took "days of frustration and pressure" to produce a five-page technical document because he constantly transposed letters within words.
He also transposes letters to create new words, and serves up the odd spoonerism.
All of this he managed despite severe dyslexia: his spelling was atrocious, and he transposed words, letters, and numbers, sometimes leaving aides to figure out what he meant with a message intended for, say, "Mr. Joe N. Lie," of the People's Republic of China.
Blogger/journalist/activist Mahmoud Ghazayel in a play on words transposed Arabic letters on a hazy picture of the Raouché rock to read "Beirut El Ghabriya" (Beirut the dusty), instead of "Beirut El Gharbiya" (West Beirut) where the landmark rests planted in the sea.
Buy from Amazon.com (Books 1, 2 and 3), Amazon.co.uk (Books 1 and 2, Book 3 HARUKI MURAKAMI filches from George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" for the title of his new novel, "1Q84", making a play on kyu, the Japanese word for nine, by transposing the letter "Q" for the number "9".
Furthermore, the transposed-letter pseudo-words activated their corresponding base words to a considerable degree, as shown by a substantial false alarm rate.
As for the ERP data, the N400 component (300 500 ms) was larger to less "word-like" stimuli than to transposed-letter pseudo-words, which were treated almost as words, whereas in a second latency range (500 680 ms) this effect was reversed – transposed-letter pseudo-words were fully recognized as meaningless.
In some studies the procedure adopted to generate legal pseudo-words consists in changing one single letter in each element of a set of real words, or by transposing 1 2 letters [ 31].
"If they transpose two letters that they're typing something in, that's an honest mistake".
It is certain that official sneaks were not regarded as men of great integrity at the time of Jonathan Swift, whose Gulliver commends the ingenuity with which, by transposing the letters of the alphabet in any suspected paper, they can lay open the deepest designs of a discontented party..."....
It is certain that official sneaks were not regarded as men of great integrity at the time of Jonathan Swift, whose Gulliver commends the ingenuity with which, by transposing the letters of the alphabet in any suspected paper, they can lay open the deepest designs of a discontented party..."...
