Cultural Studies 100 : Sarah Klein's noon tutorial

Monday, October 09, 2006

Saussure and Concept

YOU ARE RAEDING TIHS AND UDNERSTNADNIG WAHT IS WRTTIEN EEVNTHUOGH THE LTETERS ARE ALL MXIED UP. DO YOU KNOW WHY THIS IS PSSOBILE? I BEILVEE IT IS BSAED ON SUSASRUE’S THOERY ON CONCPETS. WE UNEDRSTNAD WAHT IS WRTTIEN HREE AS LNOG AS THE FRIST AND THE LSAT LTETERS ARE IN THE CRROECT PALCE OF A WROD. TIHS IS BECUASE OUR BARIN DEOS THE SAME THING WEHN WE HAER WRODS BIENIG SPOEKN AND AS WE INTREPERT MAENING .

INSTAED OF LTETERS, WE CONVRET THE SYALLBES OF THE WRODS ITNO CONCPETS. BSAED ON SUSASRUE’S ATRCILE, THORUGH SYTNHSEIS WE UNEDRSTNAD BECAUSE SINGALS ARE TRUNED ITNO INTREPERATTIONS. THE MAENING IS BSAED ON THE MAOJRITY’S AGEERMNET. LKIE SPKOEN WRODS, WE ARE ALBE TO CONVRET THSEE MXIED UP WIRTTEN WRODS IN OUR MNID TO MAKE THE CORERCT WORD IN ODRER TO INTREPERT MAENING.

TRANSLATION:
You are reading this and understanading what is written eventhough the letters are all mixed up. Do you know why this is possible? I believe it is based on Saussure’s theory on concepts. We understand what is written here as long as the first and the last letters are in the correct place of a word. This is because our brain does the same thing when we hear words being spoken and as we interpret meaning.

Instead of letters, we convert the syllables of the words into concepts. Based on Saussure’s article, through synthesis we understand because signals are turned into interpretations. The meaning is based on the majority’s agreement. Like spoken words, we are able to convert these mixed up written words in our mind to make the correct word in order to interpret meaning.

1 Comments:

Blogger Shaylene said...

whoa that was a pretty cool way to describe what the article was about. very interesting!

12:01 a.m.  

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