[speedgibson] Speed Gibson: Words

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Posted by Speed Gibson:
Words 
http://speedgibson.powerblogs.com/posts/1184990069.shtml


   If you're my age, you remember something called Word Processing. It
   was the beginning of the end for the electric typewriter. A local
   company, CPT, was one of the pioneers, with high, narrow, black on
   white reverse video displays that looked just like the paper it
   eventually produced when done.
   I remember laughing when I first heard it called Word Processing. I,
   you see, was a Data Processor. I had no time for high tech typing. It
   was beneath me.
   Still, the idea quickly caught on, with steno pools giving way to Word
   Processing departments. My IBM rep soon had another term for it - Word
   Storage. Words go in, he said, and aren't seen again for days. He had
   to beg to get his proposals typed .
   I think it was on Mark Levin's show this week that I heard some
   Democrat's speech described as little more than "Word Salad." It seems
   the term is already in Wikipedia, but there seem to be two meanings,
   one a synonym for blather, the other a curious concept of mixing
   letters within words. As long as you leave the first and last letters
   the same, you can still read it.
   Try it yourself, with this quote from U.S. Senator Barack Obama:

     We konw tatt as porgsereviss we belviee in arfofabdle htleah crae
     for all Aericmans, and tatt we're giong to mkae srue tatt Amanerics
     dno't hvae to coshoe bteeewn a htlaeh crae paln tatt bupknatrs the
     grovennmet and one tatt bktpranus fliameis, the ptary tatt wno't
     jsut torhw a few tax bkreas at fiiamles who cna't aofrfd tiher
     irannsuce, but wlil mrnizodee our haleth crae stesym and gvie eevry
     falmiy a cahcne to buy iuransnce at a pcrie tehy can aorffd.

   It reads just like the original!