My Mind Wandering has often slithered past a potential Blog Posting about the Commercial Speed Speakers we hear every day on Radio or Television. You know of which I speak...Or do u?
The Blog Posting I did not post would have been about how our Rulers pass laws to make us do things or stop us from doing things only to turn a blind eye when the law is circumvented or even completely ignored. They appear to think that their job is to pass laws. Once that has been done they are done. Whether or not anyone pays any attention to their laws is of no concern to them.
A fine example of which I speak is the law that says certain warnings must be spoken to consumers for the consumer’s protection at the end of commercials. The sellers of the product comply with the letter of the law in a way that almost does not count. The words are spoken by a High Speed Word Speaker at a speed that is unable to be understood by anyone including the High Speed Word Speaker.
There you have it. The warning words have been spoken. The law has been complied with. The sponsor of the bill that became this crazy circumvented law of the land is at Happy Hour when the announcement is made that the Folks Back Home have elected him to yet another term in office.
Oops! Another related shoe has dropped. To find out about that shoe read below the bunch of asterisks below.
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I have more and more become bothered by an offshoot of the High Speed Word Speaker Phenomenon by an unsettling tendency of many TV Shows and News Broadcasts to talk their words faster than my ears can hear them talked.
Everybody is in a hurry. It is not important that their message be understood. It is only important that the words be spoken. Once that has been done the High Speed Word Speakers go to Happy Hours where they never get anything to drink because the bartenders can’t understand what they are ordering.
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In the past I have told you about the Reticular Activating System. If you want to read an article that will confuse the heck out of you, click here https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK549835/ but I recommend you don’t click there because you won’t understand much of any of it. Don’t contact me and ask me to explain any of it because I am certain I understand less of it than you are going to understand of it.
To get a better understanding let’s try this...
The Reticular Activating System (RAS) is a bundle of nerves at our brainstem that filters out unnecessary information so the important stuff gets through.
The RAS is the reason you learn a new word and then start hearing it everywhere. It’s why you can tune out a crowd full of talking people, yet immediately snap to attention when someone says your name or something that at least sounds like it.
In other words, if you develop a need for something, you become aware of that something all around you. In my own experience I once had a need to buy a used car. Until I acquired the used car that I eventually ended up with, I saw used cars for sale (used car lots and private owner's cars) along every road I drove on. Once I bought my used car the used cars disappeared. Actually they were still there but I had no interest in them any longer, therefore, I drove right by them paying them no never mind.
I hope to activate your Reticular Activating System about the High Speed Word Speakers in TV Shows and News Broadcasts. They have been there for years but now you will notice them there.
If you are like me, you will find yourself shouting at the TV, “You are talking faster than my ears can hear!” but they won't hear you.
Would I kid u?
Smartfella
