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Splleing?
2005-11-09, 1:45 AM #1
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 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!
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2005-11-09, 1:50 AM #2
Yep. I've read that before.
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2005-11-09, 2:30 AM #3
Old. And I wouldn't have said it's the most accurate thing in the world. Yeah, you might be able to read it, but it's a lot easier top read it if it's actually spelled correctly.
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2005-11-09, 3:04 AM #4
Yeah. It's very interesting.

Originally posted by Spiral:
Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef,
but the wrod as a wlohe.


It's just a part of a bigger picture, though. When the human brain evolved, there wasn't yet any written language around. So, the ability that makes it possible to easily read that messed text in fact evolved for something else. What was that?
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2005-11-09, 4:58 AM #5
To deal with and understand people on the internet that fail at intelligence.
2005-11-09, 6:07 AM #6
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2005-11-09, 7:45 AM #7
Originally posted by lassev:
Yeah. It's very interesting.



It's just a part of a bigger picture, though. When the human brain evolved, there wasn't yet any written language around. So, the ability that makes it possible to easily read that messed text in fact evolved for something else. What was that?


Or it could be that it evolved from humans needing to read written works on poorly made paper/stone/writing surface and using crappy pens/carvers/writing utensils.

Either way, it's damn cool to see, and it's amazing how fast you can read it, as if it's not messed up at all.
2005-11-09, 7:56 AM #8
Cool.
2005-11-09, 8:35 AM #9
That is pretty damn cool.
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2005-11-09, 9:33 AM #10
i employ this principal every day.
Laughing at my spelling herts my feelings. Well laughing is fine actully, but posting about it is not.
2005-11-09, 9:40 AM #11
You do it involuntarily.

So it doesn't count.
2005-11-09, 9:55 AM #12
My brother learned in his psychology class, that it really isn't an evolved ability as much as something our brain does with everything, not just reading. Our brain can only store 6 to 7 numbers in a row. But humans can recite list of numbers that are 15 to 20 digits long, because they don't remember the whole thing, they remember 6 or 7 "groups" of numbers.... for instance 2 3 5 1 8 0 6 3 8 6 2 9 2 2 is difficult to remember, but 235, 1806, 386, 2922 is much easier to remember. It is the same thing with words, we remember each word as a "group" of letters, not as individual L, E, T, T, E, R, S.
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2005-11-09, 9:57 AM #13
[QUOTE=- Tony -]Old. And I wouldn't have said it's the most accurate thing in the world. Yeah, you might be able to read it, but it's a lot easier top read it if it's actually spelled correctly.[/QUOTE]


It took me longer to read your post than that paragraph because you put a p right after your to.
2005-11-09, 10:03 AM #14
It's proof of the advanced pattern-matching capabilities of our brain. Human beings see patterns everywhere, even when they don't necessarily exist. We recognize faces in clouds and in ink blots because we're constantly matching patterns stored in memory with incoming visual data. A pattern does not have to match by 100% for us to recognize it, which is why in this case we recognize words in jarbled letters.
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2005-11-09, 1:09 PM #15
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2005-11-09, 1:37 PM #16
I tnhik taht mybae I'll psot etvhrineyg lkie tihs now. Ecepxt I'll ppehras glabre it a bit mroe.
Stuff
2005-11-09, 2:05 PM #17
Originally posted by kyle90:
I tnhik taht mybae I'll psot etvhrineyg lkie tihs now. Ecepxt I'll ppehras glabre it a bit mroe.


Unless you have a program that does that automatically, it's more trouble writing wrong with set rules than writing correctly (not counting unintended spelling errors).
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2005-11-09, 2:09 PM #18
Originally posted by lassev:
a program that does that automatically
That could have saved me so much time over the years.
2005-11-09, 2:18 PM #19
Originally posted by Darkjedibob:
Old newz

^ He's right. ;)
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2005-11-09, 2:19 PM #20
Rist rthist reasyt rtot rreadt?
2005-11-09, 2:19 PM #21
Wul'ndot be taht hrad to pgroarm, atulacly.
Stuff
2005-11-09, 3:18 PM #22
Originally posted by kyle90:
Wul'ndot be taht hrad to pgroarm, atulacly.


Yaeh. I was cosinedring coding one wehn tihs news fsirt time aappered hree at Massassi. But lkie so mnay ohetr cool thnigs, it neevr got byeond the dtisant ieda sttae...
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2005-11-09, 3:33 PM #23
Originally posted by Avenger:
Yep. I've read that before.


PUN.
2005-11-09, 4:04 PM #24
Originally posted by kyle90:
ppehras glabre


????
Warhead[97]
2005-11-09, 4:05 PM #25
that was pretty easy to read
2005-11-09, 4:09 PM #26
Seen it before, but I'm amazed how I didn't struggle at all. Czary.
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2005-11-09, 4:19 PM #27
Originally posted by BobTheMasher:
????


Perhaps garble.
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2005-11-09, 4:20 PM #28
ohhhhhhhhhhhhh.
Warhead[97]
2005-11-09, 9:52 PM #29
Originally posted by Elana14:
i employ this principal every day.


h8.

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2005-11-09, 10:11 PM #30
Originally posted by Spiral:
My brother learned in his psychology class, that it really isn't an evolved ability as much as something our brain does with everything, not just reading. Our brain can only store 6 to 7 numbers in a row. But humans can recite list of numbers that are 15 to 20 digits long, because they don't remember the whole thing, they remember 6 or 7 "groups" of numbers.... for instance 2 3 5 1 8 0 6 3 8 6 2 9 2 2 is difficult to remember, but 235, 1806, 386, 2922 is much easier to remember. It is the same thing with words, we remember each word as a "group" of letters, not as individual L, E, T, T, E, R, S.


I remember words as arrays of chars.


:cool:
2005-11-09, 10:49 PM #31
Originally posted by Jon`C:
Rist rthist reasyt rtot rreadt?


Once you figure out what you did to the words (adding r to the beginning and t to the end) it is. Trips you up a bit more when you start reading though.

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