Re: Help needed reading text


"Renia" <renia@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in
waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the
frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses
and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid
deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

How long did it take you to type that? :-) Looks like my normal typing but
I would guess hard to do intentionally.

Amzanig huh?

That's the human brain for you. It obviously realised that reading would be
impractical if it had to process every letter in turn.

I think you can also lose all vowels in words over three letters long and
the text still make sense. Drifting OT so I'll leave you to experiment.

AV.


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