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comfort for us lousy spellers and typists

Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 1:16 pm
by ken k
fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too. Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.

i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh?

Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 1:30 pm
by windshieldbug
twah botua sith?

&*%$ oyu, &%#^%, *#%@$#% ^#&$^%!

Some words, the order DOES matter! :shock: :D

Re: comfort for us lousy spellers and typists

Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 5:10 pm
by lgb&dtuba
ken k wrote:fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too. Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.

i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh?
Very stange. Once I got started I could read it almost as fast as if it was spelled correctly. Take that, sellpnig nzais.

Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 8:05 pm
by iiipopes
A good mind is a terrible thing to waste.

Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 8:18 pm
by windshieldbug
A good waste is a terrible thing to mind.

Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 8:27 pm
by Chuck(G)
Jst gt rd f th vwls.

Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 11:18 pm
by iiipopes
Chuck(G) wrote:Jst gt rd f th vwls.
Human Civilization has been there, done that, with among other languages, Hebrew.

Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 1:20 am
by Chuck(G)
iiipopes wrote:Human Civilization has been there, done that, with among other languages, Hebrew.
It works better for some languages than for others:

http://www.geocities.com/~olelo/hltableofcontents.html
http://cognews.com/1069225595/index_html