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#11
07-06-2007, 08:42 PM
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Re: How many F\'s do you count on the following passage?
3.1 trillion
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07-06-2007, 09:06 PM
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Re: How many F\'s do you count on the following passage?
ok guys.
I think we solved this one. Now count the Fs here please: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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#14
07-06-2007, 09:19 PM
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Re: How many F\'s do you count on the following passage?
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ok guys. I think we solved this one. Now count the Fs here please: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. [/ QUOTE ] 6?
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#15
07-06-2007, 09:25 PM
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Re: How many F\'s do you count on the following passage?
OK I'll admit that was pretty weird, sitting here reading it over and over going "three ... wait, four ... wait ... holy hell I missed every single 'of' WTF?!"
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#16
07-07-2007, 02:09 AM
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Re: How many F\'s do you count on the following passage?
i got 6 the first try
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#17
07-07-2007, 03:06 AM
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Re: How many F\'s do you count on the following passage?
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OK I'll admit that was pretty weird, sitting here reading it over and over going "three ... wait, four ... wait ... holy hell I missed every single 'of' WTF?!" [/ QUOTE ] Apparantly our brains our not geared to recognise the letter F when written of! Whoever counted three first time,this is pretty normal.
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#18
07-07-2007, 07:11 AM
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Re: How many F\'s do you count on the following passage?
Haha, for once I get an advantage for not being a native speaker.
This is like anti-sheep.
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#19
07-07-2007, 08:26 AM
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Re: How many F\'s do you count on the following passage?
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Haha, for once I get an advantage for not being a native speaker. This is like anti-sheep. [/ QUOTE ] Yes.It is interesting. I think it is because we say of but to us it sounds like we use a v. So it sounds like ov. Just guessing though.
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#20
07-07-2007, 03:15 PM
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Re: How many F\'s do you count on the following passage?
I wonder if it would be as easy to miss it on paper as it is on a computer screen?
That's a pretty common phenomenon when it comes to proofreading newspaper pages ... you read everything on the computer and think you caught everything, then you print the page out and all of a sudden you catch like a dozen typos. (Then you send it to the pressroom, they print a negative, you catch a half dozen more things that need corrected, wasting a negative, and the next day the higher-ups chew your ass out for "wasting money." Typical.)
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