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> We all now

As a non-native English reader, it took me a while to understand that this means: We all know.

I think native speakers hash the words in their brain based on how they sound. And people who learned English at school primarily by reading and writing, hash the words by how they are written. The latter data structure makes it difficult to find that "know" and "now" are almost the same word.




Now and know sound nothing alike, so hashing by character composition would get you much closer than the hypothetical native speaker.


Sorry. Non-native so you figured me out. This was a pure error though. My mental pronunciation is quite different.




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