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I was just going to say the same thing. I need some beer.
by daxfohl 9y ago
I was just going to say the same thing. I need some beer.
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- MarkMc 9y agoI read it as 'Paris' too. Actually I expect this is a very common error. "Born in $place_name" has a much higher base frequency than "Born in Pairs", so our System 1 brain screams "Paris!" until System 2 kicks in.
- grogers 9y agoFor me it was the casing. We aren't used to seeing "Pairs" capitalized, especially so since it is not the first word in the sentence. Paris however, will always be capitalized, so the brain autocorrects to the wrong word. Even though the title is in headline-case, it still fools you.
- kashyapc 9y agoYep, you hit the nail -- it's the casing, indeed. Much like other humans here, I read it 4 times, and still got stumped until I saw the comments section. (While coffee is next to me, and Paris is almost a stone's throw (3 hr train) from where I live.) As you could imagine, clicked it purely because of my brain going: "What is that non sequitur at the end of the title?"