Discussion » Beargod Was Right All Along....

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Posted by jlittle, 12:48, 12th September 2003:
 
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.
Posted by beargod, 12:52, 12th September 2003:
 
Well yes apart from one or two words there which I had to look back on I could read that :)
Posted by chandler, 13:35, 12th September 2003:
 
OMG!!!! thats AMAZING!
jesus! omg!!! lol
i read that straight through no problem!!!!
WOW!!!!!
:D
Posted by friday, 13:36, 12th September 2003:
 
aahh, come on! BG did the rscheearch himslef.....
Posted by chandler, 13:36, 12th September 2003:
 
taht maed me luagh out luod! it's aamznig
Posted by friday, 13:49, 12th September 2003:
 
it is petrty azamning thuogh
Posted by Victor Menendez, 13:54, 12th September 2003:
 
Ijs Alwextdy a lxtd of sppt if yqu twxzjk arytt it.
Posted by beargod, 14:13, 12th September 2003:
 
I can't read Vics though
Posted by jlittle, 15:04, 12th September 2003:
 
that's cos he's changed letters! Your meant to keep the same letters in just swap them round arn't you?
Posted by beargod, 15:05, 12th September 2003:
 
I don't sometimes, but thats cos the keys should be more spaced like a meter between each key
Posted by Victor Menendez, 15:20, 12th September 2003:
 
thats not what you said.
Posted by beargod, 15:21, 12th September 2003:
 
Who said and when?
Posted by beargod, 15:21, 12th September 2003:
 
... also what did they say?
Posted by beargod, 15:28, 12th September 2003:
 
Yep sorry just worked it out vic sorry yep that is true, but he did imply the other letters are the same
Posted by mikey_boy, 15:31, 12th September 2003:
 
was there actually some research, or is this one of those random things that people have noticed? do you have a link jlittle?
Posted by jeffld, 18:27, 12th September 2003:
 
taht is ptrety naet!
Posted by Redmaiden, 18:55, 12th September 2003:
 
haha i read it through no problem either, but beargod can't construct sentences properly which can be confusing
Posted by eatmypiano, 19:29, 12th September 2003:
 
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"
Posted by chandler, 19:34, 12th September 2003:
 
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.
Posted by chandler, 19:35, 12th September 2003:
 
eatmypiano. i think its a combination of the two.
Posted by beargod, 22:27, 12th September 2003:
 
Chandler I know I said he implied that they were used, he did not construct his sentece to say they were definatly there
Posted by chandler, 23:09, 12th September 2003:
 
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.
Posted by Victor Menendez, 08:54, 13th September 2003:
 
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.
Posted by Victor Menendez, 08:54, 13th September 2003:
 
Anyone know the national flower of Australia?
Posted by eatmypiano, 10:14, 13th September 2003:
 
www.googlism.com/what_is/w/wattle/
Posted by chandler, 11:32, 13th September 2003:
 
vicky: oh right, sorry :)
no luck on finding that flower to buy btw
Posted by tommorris, 00:00, 14th September 2003:
 
This sceptic ain't convinced. insert $rant here.
Posted by eatmypiano, 18:18, 14th September 2003:
 
What aren't you convinced about? The Golden Wattle IS the national flower of Australia.
Posted by tommorris, 06:58, 18th September 2003:
 
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).
Posted by jeffld, 18:45, 22nd September 2003:
 
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...
Posted by Redmaiden, 22:04, 22nd September 2003:
 
sprem in my anas
Posted by gobbo, 08:24, 23rd September 2003:
 
Oh so thats why you and chandler werent online at the weekend...
Posted by Rosie, 09:33, 23rd September 2003:
 
LOL!!
Posted by chandler, 12:14, 23rd September 2003:
 
:D