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

Well yes apart from one or two words there which I had to look back on I could read that :)

OMG!!!! thats AMAZING!
jesus! omg!!! lol
i read that straight through no problem!!!!
WOW!!!!!
:D

aahh, come on! BG did the rscheearch himslef.....

taht maed me luagh out luod! it's aamznig

it is petrty azamning thuogh

Ijs Alwextdy a lxtd of sppt if yqu twxzjk arytt it.

I can't read Vics though

that's cos he's changed letters! Your meant to keep the same letters in just swap them round arn't you?

I don't sometimes, but thats cos the keys should be more spaced like a meter between each key

thats not what you said.

Who said and when?

... also what did they say?

Yep sorry just worked it out vic sorry yep that is true, but he did imply the other letters are the same

was there actually some research, or is this one of those random things that people have noticed? do you have a link jlittle?

taht is ptrety naet!

haha i read it through no problem either, but beargod can't construct sentences properly which can be confusing

I don't think it's because you read the whole word. It's because the brain can understand the concept of the sentence and "predict" what the next word should be. For example, if I said "The weather today is...", although you wouldn't know what the missing word is, you wouldn't think "elephant" or "spatula". Likewise, if I said "Blue sponge table Antwerp displacement..." you wouldn't know what the next word is because it's a nonsense sentence and any word can fit. Therefore you'd have difficulty with JLs original claim if I said something like "Skgmino rprbrasye cnitovegi mtah illtnsa" as it's a nonsense sentence.
(Paterson, C. Reading Behaviour 2001).

Also see "Stroop effect"

vicky and simon he said "it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are" so he did say you need those middle letters just not in the right order.

eatmypiano. i think its a combination of the two.

Chandler I know I said he implied that they were used, he did not construct his sentece to say they were definatly there

yeah he did. he said "it doesnt matter in what order the letters in a word are"

meaning the ORDER doesnt matter. which also means that they have to be the right letters, just not in the right order.

I know chay, i'm just fucking about.

EMP: i agree, i had tremendous problems with this when i learned to type because you are supposed to simply go read + type each letter individually (if that makes sense) but i would tend to read the word and type it from memory, tricky thing to get over.

Anyone know the national flower of Australia?

www.googlism.com/what_is/w/...

vicky: oh right, sorry :)
no luck on finding that flower to buy btw

This sceptic ain't convinced. insert $rant here.

What aren't you convinced about? The Golden Wattle IS the national flower of Australia.

I was speaking in broader terms - misspellings are bad, bad, naughty, naughty.

I'm waiting for the day when kids are brought up by cartoon characters called "Teenage Mutant Linguistics Professors" and taught the value of keeping dictionaries and thesauri close to hand in case of "linguistic emergency" (like you need to take a shit and have run out of bog paper).

I just found a perl script that does that scramble thingy.

I was testing it out and I typed in this...

This is the song that never ends. It goes on and on my friends.

and out popped this...

Tihs is the snog that never ends. It geos on and on my fnerids.

snog.. hehe...

sprem in my anas

Oh so thats why you and chandler werent online at the weekend...

LOL!!

:D

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