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It's a random Markov chain based on the Calvin and Hobbes wikipedia. I can't really take credit - the source I listed was the generator I used. My (completely
by rprospero 11y ago
It's a random Markov chain based on the Calvin and Hobbes wikipedia. I can't really take credit - the source I listed was the generator I used.
My (completely unsupported) suspicion is that individuals who don't subvocalize tend to take advantage of common structures in texts to process everything at the sentence level, instead of the word level. The catch is that sentences which don't match their common expected structure tend to get lost in the shuffle. For example, when reading that "the man who hunts ducks out on weekends", individuals who don't sub-vocalize would be more likely to miss the "out" and believe that the hunter hunts ducks.
As part of my hypothesis, I would suspect that the following example, which isn't a Markov chain, but rather a quote from Finnegan's Wake, will also force people to switch to "hearing" when they read, simply because of the unusual sentence structure.
> In the ignorance that implies the impression that knits knowledge that finds the nameform that whets the wits that convey contacts that sweeten sensation that drives desire that adheres to attachment that dogs death that bitches birth that entails the ensuance of existentiality
- bobwaycott 11y agoI knew it had to be Calvin and Hobbes!