OT- just found it interesting

[spndnchz]

Anyone ever see this (or read it) had my last exam today and the prof gave us this on the way out the door:

 

Can you raed tihs? 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 rscheearch 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!

 

Maybe he gave it out to be philosophical or something, maybe he's just wierd?

 

-Peace out.

[SDS]

it's been around the internet, but no research was done at Cambridge on it. So, it's a bit of a hoax.

[tom webster]

Anyone ever see this (or read it) had my last exam today and the prof gave us this on the way out the door:

 

Can you raed tihs? 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 rscheearch 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!

 

Maybe he gave it out to be philosophical or something, maybe he's just wierd?

 

-Peace out.

 

Waht, you tyrnig to put slepl cehck out of bsinuess?

[evil_otto]

Looks like the spelling quality of half the emails I get every day. :)

[2ForTripping]

Looks like the spelling quality of half the emails I get every day. :)

and a good number of posters on this board!!

[2ForTripping]

:lol: Some of the "educated" folks on here may cry foul by saying it was a fragment of a sentence, indeed it was but, the initial post was about spelling and not sentence structure. So my intial reply still holds true.

[Stoner]

If it doesn't matter what order the letters are, why is the first letter in all of the words the actual first letter?

[Taro T]

If it doesn't matter what order the letters are, why is the first letter in all of the words the actual first letter?

Because they do matter. :doh:

 

The "frist and lsat" letters (but not the gmac nor gre ones) apparently are the ones that do matter.

 

Welcome back. :beer:

[Stoner]

Because they do matter. :doh:

 

The "frist and lsat" letters (but not the gmac nor gre ones) apparently are the ones that do matter.

 

Welcome back. :beer:

 

 

I curse Evelyn Woods. Ptooey.

[JujuFish]

Older than the internet.:P

[carpandean]

I saw this on a t-shirt in Kohl's the other day. It is pretty cool how quickly you can read that paragraph.

 

As a kid, I played a game where you had to look at the answer in a mirror to read it (the words were backward), but I never bothered. I just read it as written.

[sabregoats]

I saw this on a t-shirt in Kohl's the other day. It is pretty cool how quickly you can read that paragraph.

 

As a kid, I played a game where you had to look at the answer in a mirror to read it (the words were backward), but I never bothered. I just read it as written.

that is also the way leonardo davinci would write partly because of being left handed.

[DonInBuffalo]

somewhat related - a linguistics professor told us that you actually only hear a fraction of what the other person is saying to you during a conversation. Your brain fills in the rest based on experience/context, giving you the (false) impression that you heard the entire thing. If the other person put a random unexpected word into the middle of a sentence, you would most likely ask him to repeat what he said because you didn't "hear" that word.

[That Aud Smell]

cheese in the hizzouse.

 

i enjoy those cognitive curiosity bits that make their way around the internet.

 

while not linguistic in nature,

one is also a favorite of mine.

[spndnchz]

cheese in the hizzouse.

 

i enjoy those cognitive curiosity bits that make their way around the internet.

 

while not linguistic in nature,

one is also a favorite of mine.

snap