Let's say you are driving a car down a road. Right in front of your car are words on the pavement. If the words on the road were placed on paper it would go:

AHEAD

SCHOOL

Here is my question:

If there was a small distance between the two words, and you were moving foward in your automobile, would you, at first glance, read the words like words on paper or would you read the word closest to your car and "move upward"?

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I've wondered the same thing when I see things like that that say

STOP

AHEAD

But I guess if you're going fast enough they figure you don't have time to rememeber what the first word was by the time you see the last one... but then again, it's just two words. Not like a paragraph or anything.

as for my answer, I think it depends mostly on how they're written but at first glance, I guess yes I do read them as I come upon the words.

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[This message has been edited by Correction (edited June 23, 2004).]

right, I always subconsciously read that as "ahead school' at the first glance.

Another thing that's weird is when the city just paints STOP on the road instead of putting up a decent stop sign.

I once got pulled over for running one of those, but in court I pointed out 9with pictures) that the asphalt was so broken up and the sign so faded that it was impossible to see unless you knew it was there. I won my case, and they still haven't fixed it.



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The best one is

STOP

BUS

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I always read it as "ahead stop".

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That's what street signs are for!

Where are all of you seeing these things written on the road? I can't remember ever seeing -anything- but lines painted on roads.

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I would read the words as they were written. Luckily there are only signs around here.

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Erm...Aren't you supposed to look ahead of you, instead of looking down at the road right in front of you?

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I would read it like reading a paragraph.

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Surprisingly enough, the words are big enough to be read from some distance away.

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