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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."

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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.