I am constantly misreading the topic titles, and I don't just do it once. Every time I see the topic I read it (misread it) the same way.

Today's topics:

Sofa for the young. (sol-fa for the young)

Exercises Naked. (Exercises needed)



I just wondered if anyone else had any amusing misreads to share? (Maybe I'm weird )

Well its not a topic title, but the most common one for me, is if I see a van in the high street, I read it as 'Shoplifters' rather than 'Shopfitters'
I also often read about the Conservatory party.

Yes, that was a misleading topic title.

The one called "Harp shopping", I kept reading as "Harp shooting"

That's exactly what I mean.

Same !

I am always doing this! Today I misread 'Do real pianists wear rings?' as 'Do real pianists wear thongs?' and a while ago there was 'Music Stand - wall hung' which I repeatedly misread as 'Well hung.'

Suspect I may have 'issues.'

The classic one of course is the thread at the top of each forum - the FAQ, which can be easily misread as 'fag'

Car Expert

at least I know I'm not alone - some of my misreadings are very worrying

tonedeafmum, I think some therapy would not be amiss, in working through your 'issues' ...

I also confess to misreading topics, but not quite with the suggestiveness others seem to imagine. My usual trick is to misread 'titles' as .......(replace the 'l' with an 'i' and you're getting close)

denmark

Leaving out the 'L' when you read 'public' is very common and can liven up dull newspaper articles about 'public offence orders' and 'the public sector' . . .

I sometimes read a sign TO LET as TOILET

There was a film a few years ago: Shakespeare in Hove . . .

I nearly choked when French Connection changed it's branding image...
what the FCUK!

I always end up reading "Carphone Warehouse" as "Earphone Wh*rehouse"

I like the ones that have an incomplete sentence for the topic (or at least, the part of it that shows in the topic title,) and then get completed by the name of the last person to post in that topic.

Sorry, that sounds very convoluted. There was an example a couple of weeks ago, in, I think, the parents' forum.
(it might have been 'My three-year-old is asking for ..... followed in turn by various forum names as the replies came in).

A real one, although not on the forums, was spotted and misread on holiday in the south of France a couple of years ago.

In the window of a decorating shop in Lamalou-les-Bains - -

'Toile et Papier'.

We stopped in a French town for breakfast after an all-night coach journey. After croissants and coffee we waited to board the bus and saw the shop next door was called Lavorama. Our imagination started to run riot until we realised it was a launderette

I often read docuemnts with the word 'outage' and read 'outrage'. It livens up the work day for me.

Just in case anyone suggests we are straying from the original idea of the thread:
I've just looked at what I thought was Raspberry in Handforth.
I could always use a larger resolution, I suppose.

Maybe I'm just thick this morning but I dont get that last one Linda!

Original was Robbery in Horsforth.

Started by one fsharpminor I believe

Ah OK the penny didnt drop !!

I have a related but tricker issue at the moment. I haven't got used to the username change. I still have to log in with my old one, so it isn't really sinking in.

I keep reading posts by this "Misti" who says just what I would have... only to realise that its my witterings from the day before.

Had a letter this a.m. Said, "insulting appointment" and thought what's this?, after reading it at least three times realised it said "insulation appointment"

Well, you know what they say about men and lavatory humour!

Not a topic title, but an e-mail title....

Some while ago at work I received an e-mail 'Found Corpse'. Fortunately, on closer inspection, it turned out to be regarding a place called Pound Copse.

I (mis)read in the paper last night that Anderson may be out of todays test because of a 'thing' injury

Hmm, slight tangent, but does anyone have this issue when playing music? Being so awfully short sighted, and then playing the flute, I often (especially if sightreading) have to take a total guess as to whether "that random note stuck up in the air" is an E or G or even B. Similarly F and A are easy to muddle.

Now usually this isn't too much of a catastrophe. I find I usually end up playing a note in the right chord, even if its not what is written, but its rather irritating to have been learning a piece for a few weeks, to finally get around the counting the ledger lines, and realise you've been playing the wrong one all this time...

I nearly always have to pencil in the note name if there are 3 or more leger lines.

I wish someone would start another thread in Viva brass because I keep seeing Fun strumpet rep...and the imagination tends to run riot.

It would surely be easier if the arranger just put 8va and write it an octave lower or 15va in extreme notes..

Indeed it would be, but its very rare for flute music/parts to be written that way... perhaps because if the range of the piece is large, then the flautists would have to read notes on ledger lines below the stave. Which I image very few actually can do! (The lowest note flautists generally ever read being middle C.)

You could always have your own Flute Clef? Works for us violists!

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Sorry.

Of course !

Some one started a topic title "your've got a friend in me" -----had no idea what they meant, but turned out to be a question about a song.

Was that song or snog ?

Looking down the list of thread titles today I saw "cricket" and almost underneath that, for a moment, I read "Daily Wisden"

I have consistently read the title of this thread as "Misleading topic titles" ever since it first appeared.

It might not be off topic, if the topic is what the person has read rather than what was written

Me too...

W

well, it turned out to be song.
I thought some one was after a friend.



Misreading could be misleading though.

I often read Friend as Fiend and I have started misreading the title as well, which is stupid since it was my title!

I've only just notice that. I did really think it was misleading titles

Put your specs on, people.

I said 'specs'....
...and as for Beethovens' "Erotica" third symphony.... oops...

denmark

Another mis-read e-mail title just now. Crops for energy. I thought it said 'Chops for energy'. Oops. Must be time for dinner....

I just did. Misread the topic title "Cricket" as "Crack". Been staring at numbers too long, eyes gone blurry.