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Context affects all perception. That's why you read this as "THE CAT" and not "TAE CHT". Without this, we wouldn't be able to read anyone's handwriting unless it was a near-perfect replication of "ideal" alphabetic letters.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)20:35, 6 February 2012

Yeah, I've always understood the reason we can read things like that to be we're expecting certain words to appear after, so if there's something similar looking then we interpret it as that word.

Fuckertalk to me :D|see my shit20:42, 6 February 2012
CAN YOU SPOT THE
THE MISTAKE??
Scarlet A.pngmoral21:01, 6 February 2012
 

Stared at that thing too much and now it just looks like lines...

Scarlet A.pngsshole21:09, 6 February 2012