Hyperlexia - Literary Tool

[Xelebes]

In this magniferous thread, we talk precipitously about rapscallion mannerisms that make nary a foglight sense. That is, the Darwinian process of elimination of actions, objects or nouns we process construct a mangled gnarble of fu xui shiu pop.

Hyperlexia (Medical) - a reading/learning disability where the words' written and vocalised characteristic is more important than the actual meaning of the word.

Hyperlexia (Literature) - a writing tool where by the author inserts or replaces words and phrases with words that sound and/or look good but make little or no sense.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

In this magniferous thread, we talk precipitously about rapscallion mannerisms that make nary a foglight sense. That is, the Darwinian process of elimination of actions, objects or nouns we process construct a mangled gnarble of fu xui shiu pop.

Hyperlexia (Medical) - a reading/learning disability where the words' written and vocalised characteristic is more important than the actual meaning of the word.

Hyperlexia (Literature) - a writing tool where by the author inserts or replaces words and phrases with words that sound and/or look good but make little or no sense.

The first is a serious problem and the second a source of boundless hilarity.

 

[Xelebes]

Here is an example of someone with the former executing the latter.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Here is an example of someone with the former executing the latter.

That's gorgeous.

I like the way the word "intrinsically" is linked to a page titled "atheism."

it must have made sense in the writer's mind...

 

[voluptuary_manque]

That's gorgeous.

I like the way the word "intrinsically" is linked to a page titled "atheism."

it must have made sense in the writer's mind...

Amazing, just amazing . . .

 

[Handley_Page]

That's gorgeous.

I like the way the word "intrinsically" is linked to a page titled "atheism."

it must have made sense in the writer's mind...

Real gobble-de-gook, that.
A sentence so long you run out of breath just reading it.
Management-speak at it's finest.

And this is a serious disease ? Wow; our politicians must be really ill.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Real gobble-de-gook, that.
A sentence so long you run out of breath just reading it.
Management-speak at it's finest.

And this is a serious disease ? Wow; our politicians must be really ill.

Serious disease, no. A real learning handicap, definitely! We frequently run across this where a student sounds like they can read up a storm but haven't a clue as to what they just read means. It makes all those adds you see about learning to read with Phonics look like the complete sham that they are.

 

[john-the-author]

Serious disease, no. A real learning handicap, definitely! We frequently run across this where a student sounds like they can read up a storm but haven't a clue as to what they just read means. It makes all those adds you see about learning to read with Phonics look like the complete sham that they are.

Why is it that wmrs2 (or whatever that little weasel's handle is) comes to mind with the mention of this disease? And is he/she/it still around or have our noble moderators killed the account? I tired of the lithium-deprived rants months ago and have that user on the ignore list.)

 

[john-the-author]

Here is an example of someone with the former executing the latter.

Holy Christ, that's one person in serious need of medication.

 

[Xelebes]

Holy Christ, that's one person in serious need of medication.

I have been able to translate those three paragraphs into one sentence: The support groups that he has been attending would serve him better if they were task-oriented or themed instead of being a place of encouragement.

 

[Xelebes]

Serious disease, no. A real learning handicap, definitely! We frequently run across this where a student sounds like they can read up a storm but haven't a clue as to what they just read means. It makes all those adds you see about learning to read with Phonics look like the complete sham that they are.

Other times, the student might write down random words from various languages thinking that it made sense or that was the task at hand. I used to do that - used to piss my teachers off badly.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

I've never had that happen, thank God. I'd be sorely put to figure out what to do about someone like that.

 

[TE999]

Why does this subject bring 'Finnegan's Wake' to mind? Reading that argle-bargle was like cleaning out a grease trap with a teaspoon.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Why does this subject bring 'Finnegan's Wake' to mind? Reading that argle-bargle was like cleaning out a grease trap with a teaspoon.

Tom, how could you? It's a great Classic. It must be, my BritLit teacher said so.

 

[TE999]

Tom, how could you? It's a great Classic. It must be, my BritLit teacher said so.

Oh really? In that case I'll have a dime bag of what he's smoking. The ramblings of a blind drunk wack-job ain't my idea of a 'Classic'. That's like calling farting in the bathtub an Olympic sport.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Oh really? In that case I'll have a dime bag of what he's smoking. The ramblings of a blind drunk wack-job ain't my idea of a 'Classic'. That's like calling farting in the bathtub an Olympic sport.

That was kind of my impression and said so. Once again I was 'being insubordinate'.

 

[TE999]

That was kind of my impression and said so. Once again I was 'being insubordinate'.

For 'being insubordinate' read 'How dare you criticize my professorial literary knowledge. I know a classic when I read it.'

Pompous ass wouldn't know a Classic if it bit him on the pecker.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

For 'being insubordinate' read 'How dare you criticize my professorial literary knowledge. I know a classic when I read it.'

Pompous ass wouldn't know a Classic if it bit him on the pecker.

Oh, I got back at him by the end of the year. By the time we graduated, he was mightily glad to see my back.

 

[TE999]

Oh, I got back at him by the end of the year. By the time we graduated, he was mightily glad to see my back.

Heh! Good for you. By the time I got my Masters, I'd had enough Piled High and Deep's to last me a lifetime. What a bunch of smug, arrogant bastards.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Heh! Good for you. By the time I got my Masters, I'd had enough Piled High and Deep's to last me a lifetime. What a bunch of smug, arrogant bastards.

The folks in History, Music, Entomology and Microbiology were great. The Art Historians were amusingly eccentric. English Lit? Oi!

 

[TE999]

The folks in History, Music, Entomology and Microbiology were great. The Art Historians were amusingly eccentric. English Lit? Oi!

I have a BA in English Ed. I also was an Art major for a while...and a History Major... Without a doubt the English profs. were the most insufferable. A bunch of snobs...legends in their own minds.

 

[john-the-author]

Why does this subject bring 'Finnegan's Wake' to mind? Reading that argle-bargle was like cleaning out a grease trap with a teaspoon.

My ex-wife (who was, admittedly, a HUGE fan of Virginia Woolf) just to call Finnegan's Wake "Drunken Irish pee-pee whacking." I'm not entirely sure I can disagree.

 

[manyeyedhydra]

I suspect that might be computer generated. Someone's playing around with some natural language generative software.

A research group did something a similar a couple of years back. The resulting gobbledygook paper even got accepted by some journals if I remember correctly

 

[Xelebes]

I suspect that might be computer generated. Someone's playing around with some natural language generative software.

A research group did something a similar a couple of years back. The resulting gobbledygook paper even got accepted by some journals if I remember correctly

I acually talked to the author of that site. He literally responds with "hyperbolic digression" instead of "yes".

 

[Boxlicker101]

Other times, the student might write down random words from various languages thinking that it made sense or that was the task at hand. I used to do that - used to piss my teachers off badly.

Do you mean it did a poor job of pissing your teachers off? I would have thought it would have done a good job of pissing them off, or would have pissed them off well.