Typophile

A Midautumn Night's Diversion

Hrant H Papazian

Point out some good evidence that -more than
a century after Javal- the layman still doesn’t
know that we read in saccades.

The best/fastest reply wins a fixation.

hhp

ChrisL

:->

THINK, people!

hhp

Javal, wasn’t he that guy in Les Miz?

No man, I mean the Abu Ghraib guy.

hhp

(All this drawing is making your minds lazy...)

The best evidence that the saccadic nature of reading remains
unknown to the layman is... how the eyes of cartoon/animated
characters move when they’re [shown] reading.

hhp

Well, saccades are kinda old skool, ennit?
What do the reading “experts” have to say about OMT?

> saccades are kinda old skool

Yeah, as old as mankind (at least). And here to stay.

What’s OMT?

hhp

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