This Is Intriguing...

[Torin_Darkflight]

Read the following. Don't try to hard, just look and read:

Aoccdrnig to rsaecerh 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 porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

Amzanig, huh?

[wolfman2001]

That's really disturbing! Explains why I can read my sons writing?

[martymas]

hay thats fascinating

i read it perfectly

word for word

yes he is right you read the word

not the letters hey thats cool

clever bugger

marty

[macmarauder]

well i'm dyslexic so it looks fine to me. better than usual in fact.

[wolfman2001]

My Son is special needs and spells crazy. I'm serious when I say it might explain why we can read his stuff. We may be on to something here!!!

[robroy]

I have seen that before, but it is an interesting fact

[JDoors]

It's more about reading several words at once than just reading whole words.

If I gave you this single word from the story:

mses

It wouldn't be clear what it was, but:

a taotl mses

Allows you to get the word by it's context.

[-Spazmatic-]

Yeah, I've seen that before, one of my teachers showed us last year, pretty cool if you ask me...although some of those words I did hang on just a little (the smaller ones, to be somewhat specific)..

But cool find. I like intresting little things like that. (I'm a bathroom reader kind of guy.)

[mikex]

That was cool. I was able to read it with no problem.

[blim]

Too many years of decifering second grader's "magic spelling", I read it just fine.

There's another similar qoute written in "dyslexic"--letters are reversed and the "e" spins around--it was emailed to dylsexic daugher (who said, "Now, this is what writing is supposed to look like!!") Hunted for it, but couldn't find it.

Liz

[Dan72]

i can raed taht fnie

[jcl]

It's more about reading several words at once than just reading whole words.

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That's definitely part of it. Here are comments by a researcher at Cambridge. Speculation about how it works, examples of when it doesn't, comparisons of various languages (it doesn't work at all in Hebrew), references to research on similar subjects, lots of good stuff.

[JDoors]

... comments ...

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Wow! What an in depth analysis of the issue, and an interesting turn of events since the guy works at the University cited in the paragraph. I was disappointed somewhat that my analysis, that the words are easily distinguished using context, was only a small part of the discussion -- I think he got that wrong, it plays a major role -- but the whole thing was interesting reading.

Some of the links he gave that I wanted to follow up on were in other languages, darn it.

I found this interesting:

" ... compare the following three sentences:

1) A vheclie epxledod at a plocie cehckipont near the UN haduqertares in Bagahdd on Mnoday kilinlg the bmober and an Irqai polcie offceir

2) Big ccunoil tax ineesacrs tihs yaer hvae seezueqd the inmcoes of mnay pneosenirs

3) A dootcr has aimttded the magltheuansr of a tageene ceacnr pintaet who deid aetfr a hatospil durg blendur ... "

According to him these get progressively more difficult to read, however I did not find that to be true. The last one was much easier than the second (with the exception of 'magltheuansr' which I still haven't unscrambled).

Also interesting, he mentioned, in passing, that while counting letters people often overlook those in short words. I remember that trick getting passed around a while ago (i.e., how many F's are in a paragraph, people invariably get it wrong because they skip a few in small words). It must have been in circulation for a long time as I have an old 'magic' book that adds a cool twist to it; The paragraph is printed on the back of the soft cover book. You show it to someone and they count the letters. You surreptitiously slip a sticker on it that blends in perfectly and that has a slightly different sentence on it! Voila -- They are ALWAYS wrong!

Edited September 9, 2005 by JDoors

[ampshock]

That explians how I was the fastest one In the whole family to learn how to read. I thought about that once.. Interesting

And that is what makes me tick!!!! AhhHHH get away from me, wait you are probbly on the other side of the world. haha

[Brian_Holiday]

I love my brain.

<pat pat> Good brain......

BH

[macmarauder]

I love my brain.

<pat pat>  Good brain......

  BH

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good brain good brain.

(holds out a hand full of kibbles and bits)

(Brian_Holidays brain leaps out and slurps up the kibbles and bits then jumps back in quickly)

[Brian_Holiday]

(Brian_Holidays brain leaps out and slurps up the kibbles and bits then jumps back in quickly)

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Actually, my brain is on Iams weight control formula....

BH