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I thought about putting this in the mentalism section ... move it if you like.

Olny srmat poelpe can.

Cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a scheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

If you can raed tihs psas it on !!

Rob

Understood all of it apart from the word reading (you have missed the "r" out)
On second thoughts I must have understood it or I wouln't have been able to write this post !!

Very Clever

I Lkie taht and arege taht i had no pobrelms radenig any of taht. i fcat mnay of the eamlis i sned at wrok end up lkie tihs.

Fi oyu acn erda htha, oyu imhgt ilek ot rty ot erda htsi oto.

My head hurts now...

Ok... I agree... but isn't this permission for the my lychadazical to NOT apply themselves in the ethic of writing properly?

Communication typically works best when all parties are on the same basic foundation and understanding of things.

Craig Browning wrote:Ok... I agree... but isn't this permission for the my lychadazical to NOT apply themselves in the ethic of writing properly?

Txt-speak: that really is the enemy of literacy as I see it.

The brain is a wonderful thing. It starts working before you are born and continues working until that moment you stand in front of an audience and have to say something.

Tomo wrote:Fi oyu acn erda htha, oyu imhgt ilek ot rty ot erda htsi oto.

My head hurts now...

That one does not work, as you have to keep the first and last letter the same

Wcich maens you cnat do trhee lteter wrods

ace of kev wrote:

Tomo wrote:Fi oyu acn erda htha, oyu imhgt ilek ot rty ot erda htsi oto.

My head hurts now...

That one does not work, as you have to keep the first and last letter the same

Wcich maens you cnat do trhee lteter wrods

Ah. I should explain that it's something else. Once you get used to it, oyu acn erda ti ta onmrla pseed, even though a casual glance looks like gibberish, whereas the technique that started the thread is psychologically "transparent".

Discombobulator wrote:The brain is a wonderful thing. It starts working before you are born and continues working until that moment you stand in front of an audience and have to say something.

Oi! Does that ever ring familiar!

But then Bill Cosby has a point about that strange period in a young person's life in which the brain seems to not function properly... as one that's raised more than a few kids, I can't help but agree... but then, my parents are still wondering when I'm going to grow up and start thinking like them (I'm in my mid-40s and decidedly "liberal" in my thoughts... they're in their late 60s and 70s and very much conservative Bush supporters.)

Craig Browning wrote:they're in their late 60s and 70s and very much conservative Bush supporters.

You have my deepest sympathies. I was in Mass for a year (up Route 95 on the coast) when Clinton was in and the nation was a different place, with a very different attitude to its governmentand how it conducted itself around the world...

Tomo wrote:

ace of kev wrote:

Tomo wrote:Fi oyu acn erda htha, oyu imhgt ilek ot rty ot erda htsi oto.

My head hurts now...

That one does not work, as you have to keep the first and last letter the same

Wcich maens you cnat do trhee lteter wrods

Ah. I should explain that it's something else. Once you get used to it, oyu acn erda ti ta onmrla pseed, even though a casual glance looks like gibberish, whereas the technique that started the thread is psychologically "transparent".

Yeh, you can, but you can read it easier if the 1st letter and last letter are correct

ace of kev wrote:Yeh, you can, but you can read it easier if the 1st letter and last letter are correct

Yeah. Gestalt theory has a lot to say about this. We naturally try to complete patterns, and that makes the ones we know best seem to form spontaneously from corrupt or incomplete data.

So, a patterns forming lkie tihs are interesting, but having to read them slightly means oyu acn ihed emnanig ni lpian ishgt

You can what something in plain sight?