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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Apr 18, 2008 1:00PM

Karl Groves wrote:

> "Typographers' consensus"? Weird, I didn't know typographers also did
> human-computer interaction.


Nah, but they've been involved in human-text interaction for a few
hundreds of years.

> Surely you don't think people actually *read* what's on screen
> word-for-word, do you?

If they have cognitive disabilities, or their first language isn't the
language of the text, they may well do that...

P
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