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.
Transposing words or names from one language or alphabet into another is evidently an inexact science.In Indonesia, where single names are common, what appears to be just part of a name may in fact be the whole name.
In the King James Version of the Hebrew Bible, God was reported to have said to Job: "Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?" I mistakenly transposed the words "counsel" and "knowledge".
Two weeks later, according to Will Shortz, the New York Times' crossword editor, "a compositor accidentally transposed the words in the title to 'Cross Word' puzzle".
The second great copying machine was writing.When the Sumerians transposed spoken words intostylus marks on clay tablets, they exponentiallyextended the human network that language hadcreated.
This show is ice-cold thrills, where power is transposed through words and looks and chilly micro-moves, not through warm body friction as you'd expect.
So I am prompted to try and play with words, substitute or transpose words for other words.
Another Biblical reference comes when Barton flips to the front of the Bible in his desk drawer and sees his own words transposed into the Book of Genesis.
But what feels light on the page can seem exceedingly ponderous once a filmmaker transposes those words into the visual realm.
Shakespeare is "big enough" to withstand having scenes cut and lines transposed or obsolete words changed for the sake of clarity, he said.
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.
