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[boogyman]

Cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae.

The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs rpsoet it


:cool: Interesting :p

[mwinter]

That's really old news, you know. :p

[thetestingsite]

Why should I have to repost what you said? Oh well, here goes:



Couldn't believe that I could actully understand what I was reading. The phanomenal power of the human mind, according to a research at Cambridge University, it doesn't matter in what order the letters in a word are, the only important thing is that the first and last letter be in the right place.

The rest can be a total mess and you can still read it without a problem. This is because the human mind does not read every letter by itself, but the word as a whole. Amazing huh? yeah and I always thought spelling was important! if you can read this repost it


In my opinion, spelling and grammer are not so important as long as the person explaining things is clear as to what he/she is trying to say.

And yes; as Mike said, this is old news.

[Twey]

This was demonstrated to me at a taster of a psychology course over five years ago :)

Spelling's not important in order to basically convey meaning in most circumstances (a user with a screen reader or someone who didn't speak the language natively might have trouble with that, for example), but it is important if your intention is to convey meaning to the greatest audience possible, with the greatest ease possible. I can read the above, but not with the speed with which I'd read a correctly-spelt sentence ("pweor" slowed me down most, I think, taking me almost half a second to read). It's also unusual to find someone who messes up the middle letters of their words but leaves the rest intact :p The nuance of the message can be changed dramatically, too: the "word" "teh," for me, conveys a very different impression to the word "the." On the Internet, of course, it's also important for automated searching.

[djr33]

Yeah. I've gotten about 20 mass-forwarded emails about this over the past 5 years or so.

related note:

From my linguistics professor (paraphrased):

There are some examples of writing with total nonsense words that have no particular meaning [such as fantasy stories, etc.], but begin to make sense in the normal patterns of the language. However, these only make sense within the context of normal syntax. By using familiar words like of or by (mostly prepositions, though other short words too, like and), you can create a logical thought that has no specific meaning based on nouns or verbs, but you know that ___ is doing the action of ___ing. In fact, the best way to have all of this work is to use suffixes and prefixes to create an integrated word into a sentence, such as adding "-ed" to the end of a new pseudoverb. This clearly means that ___ did ___ in the past, and though you cannot actually infer any meaning from this, you begin to understand the basic idea of the action and perhaps make educated guesses about its real meaning. This could, of course, just be made up, or perhaps be a new way of meaning something already in existance.

sidenote: this can be applied to foreign languages as well. I've noticed, in learning Spanish, that I completely get what a sentence is doing, though I may not know any of the vocabulary itelf. (This was a big help in getting an insanely high score on the placement exam. Though I understood next to nothing, I was able to figure out what meant what [syntax, not definition] enough to answer the questions.)

[jr_yeo]

spelling and grammer

grammar. :p

[boxxertrumps]

the "word" "teh," for me, conveys a very different impression to the word "the." I noticed that usually, "teh" is used by uber nerds/gamers and people who 5p34|< 1337.
"teh" is informal, "the" is formal... makes sense that it gives a different impression.