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[desh]

Stolen from linguaphiles and possibly not a real study, but still:

"Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, olny taht the frist and lsat ltteres are at the rghit pcleas. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by ilstef, but the wrod as a wlohe."

Comments

[nightsuplate.livejournal.com]

haha, that's great! funny thing is, i didn't notice anything wrong with it until after the comma. guess it's true that misspellings are easy to pass over.

[arishine.livejournal.com]

that's so crazy....

[ladypeaches.livejournal.com]

not sure that this makes a difference considering that I am dislexic but I was very aware that the words were messed up. I would point out that in this example you have contect which helps you know what the words mean. Do you know what this is supposed to say?

pcleas

[desh]

Yes, it says "places". It seems to be easier to read with context, as you said, and with only a little rearranging, not as much as you had there. But it's still amazing to me how easy it is for me to read my post...

Pthhht

[sherbieroni.livejournal.com]

I had serious problems making sense of that. What does that say about me? Huh?

Re: Pthhht

[desh]

Based on the discussion in the linguaphiles community, it means that your reading style is most likely "phonetic" rather than "visual", or something like that. Are you usually a quick reader?

[peneli.livejournal.com]

I had almost no problem reading it. Wow. Interesting.

I found this for you... it's the second paragraph

[sherbieroni.livejournal.com]

Taht is srot of ture, but it deos not tlel the wlohe sorty. It is
rieealtvly esay wtih sroht wrods, but not so esay wtih lngoer wdros.
Msot cetonnt wdors in Eslingh are sveen leertts lnog or leognr -- the
mroe leretts terhe are in a wrod, the mroe dulificft and caipcetmold
it bomeecs to cletrorcy infietdy them wehn the ltrtees are
ragnearerd. Warhees, more divutinmie and cmmoon wrdos lkie "blal"
and "baer" raimen mltsoy ungnchead and esay to rizocenge, lgneor,
less cmoomn wdros, like "pltlooiun" and "soulamitunes" caghne
saillbattunsy to the pniot werhe rnciooitegn is srclceay pbsslioe.
Fmrrhtrouee, this atiibly smtes form a garet deal of enpicerexe
rindaeg cretolcry slelepd wdros -- olny plopee who can adrealy raed
pelictroinfy can do this tsak. Tihs tirck does not reeavl mcuh aoubt
the pscroes of lnnreaig to raed -- it only ietaindcs that hhligy
slielkd rrdeaes are so pectacred wtih txet tehy can omoercve moinr
informieepcts (epshaims on the word "moinr") in the pnirt to aesccs
mnnaeig.

Re: I found this for you... it's the second paragraph

[desh]

This doesn't feel like it was written by the same source that wrote the first paragraph. The letter rearranging seems to be more deliberately annoying somehow. It does prove, however, that the first paragraph doesn't tell the whole story, at best...

Thanks.