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by **yat_chum** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 1:28 pm

Cnduolt 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 dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae.

The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

by **Galardiel** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 3:17 pm

Amazing...

by **Inga** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 7:43 pm

You almost got deleted as spam dude :)

That is very cool tho. Sorta disturbing, but cool.

by **darth_freak** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 5:46 am

though it only works with short words. I think that word with 3 or more syllables are more likely not to be understood.

sallbyles unstedrtood...

by **Inga** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 8:51 am

Darth, may I ask if English is your second language? I wonder if we typed Jo's phrase in French if it would be the same effect. I had no trouble with any of the words, regardless of length. My grasp of reading French and German is limited at best, mostly I have to guess from context and reach for the dictionary. However if I was a bit more fluent (and Darth I think your English is wonderful), I wonder if it would be the same for me? Or put more simply, if I read Jo's piece in a second language, would I fare the same? This really fascinates me, how the brain works :)

by **Dvivid** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 6:57 am

¡WOW!

by **SunTzu** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 10:00 am

Inga: It has to do with word recognition.

So when one's vocabulary is limited, it seems logically that the brain doesn't recognize these words at all.

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