[An Unladylike Haw-Haw]

I cracked up in the midst of doing my notes... This is about how comprehension (or understanding) is heavily reliant on our knowledge of context.

This is apparant to anyone who has asked an audio-typist to transcribe material on an unfamiliar topic. For example, a typist who was transcribing notes I had made on a book concerned with the evaluation of language typed:

This book considers the question of how language is a rose.

A collegue who was concerned with studies on the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) found his words typed as:

Forty patients were administered the beady eye.

okae, okae.. back to work. Too much language related information processing..

Taa!