watch your spelling

eureka

No, not being retentive....I got this from a friend today:

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total 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.

rhound1977

And I thought it was just my typing, but I didn't go to Cambridge.....

Seen that one before, I do have typing dyslexia, and can't find my mistakes, but only other people's....

Bruce

I have seen that one and varients of it before. It is so true really! Many times your mind sees what it thinks is supposed to be there, not what is really there.

ClausUrch

Taht is smpliy azmanig! I wluod nveer had bleeievd it if I hdn'at seen it wtih my own eeys!

newsman

That reminds me of some of the raw copy I have to edit.

MacCrimmon

So, deos tihs meen I wsated my menoy on taht huukd on pohncis cusore? Daaaamn! I tihnk I dnoe been dpued!

I gesus tihs maens I can wtrie stroies now abuot my fnie btich gyrehuond nmaed, Rbuy!

nwcs

There was a similar experiment with phonemes reversed in a spoken manner similar to what is printed. People could understand with a fair amount of distortion until it reached a threshold where it was simply unintelligible. Same type of deal here.

satootoko

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That reminds me of some of the raw copy I have to edit. >>


Yeah, but once a proof reader, always a proof reader. My last stint on a news desk was in 1959, but I still spot almost every typo in the LA Times!