Olny srmat poelpe can raed tihs.

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Olny srmat poelpe can raed tihs.


I 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!

if you can raed tihs psas it on!!
 
did you see tihs at Jmimy Jnoh's? I saw it trhee and wtnead to post it hree, but nveer jtoetd it dwon for aucrcacy. But cool nnoe the lses. Weher did you see tihs awnayy?
 
As lnog as you raed it FSAT, too. Solw dwon too mcuh and it's gbesibrih :)

[gibberish -- that's a tough one, double letters should stay together]
 
I got this exact same thing in an email a while back. still cool though. and also pretty weird...
 
exiledforcefreak said:
Olny srmat poelpe can raed tihs.
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No. Someone (you or someone higher on the chain) misunderstood what the point was.
exiledforcefreak said:
Cmabrigde Uinervtisy
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This statement is made without any source or even a reference other than to say that it was from Cambridge. In fact, any possible research being done on this is probably predated by the message itself.
exiledforcefreak said:
Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
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This is at best questionable. The original message was written in such a way such that it would be easier to interpret the words, by techniques such as not placing the first and last letter together.

It's not necessarily true that the word is being read as a whole. This is just a case of the brain's auto-correction feature. It sees what it expects to see, rather than what it actually sees. You can read a book and point out some typos, but how many do you think you've glanced over without noticing?

And the "research" doesn't hold as well for words like sgraetty. And words that ARE English, but that you may not be completely familiar with, such as tglpoooy.
 
Raijinili said:
And the "research" doesn't hold as well for words like sgraetty. And words that ARE English, but that you may not be completely familiar with, such as tglpoooy.
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sgraetty = strategy
tglpoooy = optology

Anagrams are fun.
 
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