Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness

I hate everything about this article (probably because I know just enough about language, minds and brains to have some vehement opinions but clearly not as much as cognitive scientists, but also aren't we supposed to be able to read words with the letters all jumbled up as long as the first and last letters are right?* I know as a partially sighted person I rely hugely on the shape of words (particularly the ascenders and descenders) to help me read them when I can't fully discern the letters in them, or when it just saves spoons to not have to do so)...

Okay, that parenthetical got away from me a little bit there, so let's try again: I hate everything about that article except for the amazing picture that the scientists used when they were trying to determine whether people could recognize a typeset lowercase g.

Look at those! I love it. That's some proper Lovecraftian weird-geometries (only thing other than racism that could drive someone insane, apparently!) shit going on there. The ones with the little tail on top facing the wrong way (upper left and lower right) look particularly eldritch and squamous I think.


* Turns out it's probably a bit more complicated than that...