Atnohre bsyu dya at teh oecffic raedgin tmei wsatnig elimas eh Pilh?
Yes
I dont understand this poll
Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.
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!
Atnohre bsyu dya at teh oecffic raedgin tmei wsatnig elimas eh Pilh?
Clpmaxeretnuoe:
Anidroccg to crad cniyrrag lcitsiugnis planoissefors at an uemannd utisreviny, and crartnoy to the duoibus cmials of the ueticnd rcraeseh, a slpmie, macinahcel ioisrevnn of ianretnl cretcarahs araepps sneiciffut to csufnoe the eadyrevy oekoolnr.
As with the other examples, first and last letters are in the same place, rest are reordered.
also, can i point out your "55 out of 100 can't read this" is a made up statistic.
as , indeed, are 82.5% of ALL statistics
I was amazed to find that I read it in a peculiar accent. Not out loud, in my mind. Tell me I'm not the only one?
Daisy
(A Linguistical Little Flower)
Counterexample:
According to card carring linguistics professionals at an unnamed university, and contrary to the dubious claims of the uncited research, a simple, mechanical inversion of internal characters appears sufficient to confuse the everyday onlooker.
I typed the above using what I posted before as a source - somewhat to my surprise I could actually read it at least as fast as I can type (and I'm a pretty good typist).
I wonder if it's something to do with ordering of consonants.
In the original example the consonants are roughly in the same order in the original words, or are transposed one or two characters away.
In David's example, the consonants are much more randomly scattered.
Love dance, will travel
I did decently well on the first, and thought that the one below was actually not too bad. I think the only words I missed were Counterexample, unnamed and inversion..
I periodically test myself on backwards reading - whenever the bus company put up a sign to be read from outside the bus (you know those semitransparent notices that show prices or offers) I try to read it from inside before confirming it from outside the bus..
I like to think that this mental gymnastic helps my brain from dying off, (I know my memory is dying already, so I need to keep all I can!). It also helps in business meetings to read notes upside down
Cheers WT
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