Interesting English

[Karbon]

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaerinwahtoredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is tahtthe frist and lsat ltteerbeat the rghit pclae.The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthitporbelm.Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, butthe wrod as awlohe. Amzanig huh?

[TheBeck]

Wow, Taht's a tirp!
WITFL? (Wrehe is the f**king lnik)

[Karbon]

I'm not sure.. A friend of mine sent it to me today..

[Doobrey]

Cool,
So now it doesn`t matter if I type when I`m drunk...

[kns]

Search for the "word superiority effect"...

[Karbon]

ideend

[Num3]

Just to confirm that that also happens with portuguese, everyone i presented a phrase using that teory was able to read it!

[PB]

> the olny iprmoetnt tihng is tahtthe frist and lsat ltteerbeat the rghit pclae

Heck, university research was needed to deduce that? I've known this since
I was like 5! I used to see words that looked initially like something else,
and realised it was due to both words starting and ending with the same
letters.

[wcardoso]

That confirm why little childens are genius !

[PB]

> That confirm why little childens are genius !

Hehehe.

One particular example is as follows: I have a cousin named Briden, and
there was a street near where I grew up called Brissenden Avenue, and
everytime I saw the sign as a child I always mistook it as saying Briden.

[merendo]

I've read about this. It also works in german. I've read a little text in the TV Teletext. That's cool (:P

[Froggerprogger]

PB should have this feature, too.
Here an example:

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tset.l = 1324
Podcrruee.l DoNthnonig(a.l)
  PdeceruroRterun a.l
EdnPoreurcde

Of course the same with numbers, so that the above tset.l = 1324 would be recognized as test.l = 1234.

[wayne1]

From another forum

Iltnsegnetiry I'm sdutynig tihs crsrootaivnel pnoheenmon at the Dptmnearet of Liuniigctss at Absytrytewh Uivsreitny and my exartrnairdoy doisiervecs waleoetderhlhy cndairotct the picsbeliud fdnngiis rrgdinaeg the rtlvaeie dfuictlify of ialtnstny ttalrisanng sentences. My rsceeerhars deplveeod a cnionevent ctnoiaptorn at hnasoa/tw.nartswdbvweos/utrtek:p./il taht dosnatterems that the hhpsteyios uuiqelny wrtaarns criieltidby if the aoussmpitn that the prreoecandpne of your wrods is not eendetxd is uueniqtolnabse. Aoilegpos for aidnoptg a cdocianorttry vwpiienot but, ttoheliacrley spkeaing, lgitehnneng the words can mnartafucue an iocnuurgons samenttet that is vlrtiauly isbpilechmoenrne.

Or, if you prefer...

Interestingly I'm studying this controversial phenomenon at the Department of Linguistics at Aberystwyth University and my extraordinary discoveries wholeheartedly contradict the publicised findings regarding the relative difficulty of instantly translating sentences. My researchers developed a convenient contraption at http://www.aardvarkbusiness.net/tool that demonstrates that the hypothesis uniquely warrants credibility if the assumption that the preponderance of your words is not extended is unquestionable. Apologies for adopting a contradictory viewpoint but, theoretically speaking, lengthening the words can manufacture an incongruous statement that is virtually incomprehensible.


http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/~matt.davis/Cmabrigde/

[dagcrack]

Indeed its a very old thread... but reading it I inmediatly thought "who would be so retarded to write like that?" lol... I always thought this "experiment" was so damn tard... Its true you can read on most cases such texts, but, who would in earth write like that? even people with out teeth and 2 potatoes inside their mouth can talk better

[Num3]

but reading it I inmediatly thought "who would be so retarded to write like that?"

My 2 cents:

Goegre W. Bsuh?