Can you read this?

[kyrathaba]

I cdnuolt blveiee that I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd what I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in what oerdr the ltteres in a word are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is that the frsit and last ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can still raed it whotuit a pboerlm. This is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the word as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? Yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

[housetier]

Of course this only works on people that are literate. Otherwise the brain won't be able to make out the word images from which it reconstructs meaning and stuff.

I have seen this text all over the internets. Now they should make a study about writing in such a way I guess it would be much harder than reading it.

[Deozaan]

Don't mean to be a drag, but this is really old. I remember seeing this in a meeting at work in 2003 and even then it wasn't exactly new to me.

That said, it is still really cool.

Now they should make a study about writing in such a way I guess it would be much harder than reading it.

-housetier (April 29, 2011, 07:08 PM)

A friend and I had a fake "flame war" with each other in Gmail back when it was still pretty new. wi purpsly rote 2 eechudder liek tipicle forim trollz uzign obvius mispeligns adn fonix lolololol!!111 it wuz gr8 phun butt defin8ly tuk a littel bit logner 2 reed tahn teh stuf taht kyrathaba postid. lolz!!1

[AndyM]

This actually was pretty startling.  As soon as I stopped trying to decipher the words and instead just ran my eyes along the same way I do reading normally, the speed picked up to 99% normal. 

Interesting brain stuff.

[Ath]

It seems to work best for English texts, other languages (even my primary) doen't read as easy as English when mangled up like this.

[JavaJones]

Of course this only works on people that are literate.

-housetier (April 29, 2011, 07:08 PM)

Ironically such a text is only likely to come *from* someone who's not.

It seems to work best for English texts, other languages (even my primary) doen't read as easy as English when mangled up like this.

-Ath (April 30, 2011, 03:46 AM)

Once again proving that English is mostly gibberish anyway?

- Oshyan

[Deozaan]

Of course this only works on people that are literate.

-housetier (April 29, 2011, 07:08 PM)

Ironically such a text is only likely to come *from* someone who's not.

-JavaJones (April 30, 2011, 02:23 PM)

And I can't even imagine how difficult it might be for someone who has dyslexia.

[40hz]

Probably works better for languages that don't use 'endings' or noun gender, and where the meaning is largely determined by a word's placement in a given sentence.

Although it works for some 'foreign' languages too. For example:

«Yyé izdûr zōmánimör Örziz Azziz xánzeriz Örziz?» 

[KynloStephen66515]

Now they should make a study about writing in such a way  

-housetier (April 29, 2011, 07:08 PM)

If I remember correctly, this method of writing actually originated from a study done in a university in the UK.


Don't quote me on that, but im pretty sure it did

[Deozaan]

Now they should make a study about writing in such a way  

-housetier (April 29, 2011, 07:08 PM)

If I remember correctly, this method of writing actually originated from a study done in a university in the UK.


Don't quote me on that, but im pretty sure it did

-Stephen66515 (April 30, 2011, 03:14 PM)

Isn't Cambridge in the UK?

aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy

-kyrathaba (April 29, 2011, 06:09 PM)

[KynloStephen66515]

Now they should make a study about writing in such a way  

-housetier (April 29, 2011, 07:08 PM)

If I remember correctly, this method of writing actually originated from a study done in a university in the UK.


Don't quote me on that, but im pretty sure it did

-Stephen66515 (April 30, 2011, 03:14 PM)

Isn't Cambridge in the UK?

aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy

-kyrathaba (April 29, 2011, 06:09 PM)

-Deozaan (April 30, 2011, 03:40 PM)

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