You got me doing RC’s because of that! That’s really interesting because I was reading it normally then I caught myself, “Wait a second! The letters are messed up and I still understand it!?!? I must be dreaming!”
That’s reaaally interesting. I didn’t know that. Lol, and it does prove that because I still was able to read it normally even though it was all messed up. I’m cool eh? Just kidding.
Once I was watching a show on TV about our brains and how they work. It was talking how movies have gaps in them and our brain actually makes up what we see in the gap to make it all run into one snooth looking action.
I wish I could remember what it was on and what it was called.
Oh yeah I did just like DM7 said. I was reading it fine and then I noticed it was spelt wrong. You know in my dreasm writning is always perfectly spelled. Or so I think?
my husband is dyslectic and i put him to the test, if he could read it easily too
and for him it was easier than normal text because he normally sees words messed up already, in this case he didn’t have to pay attention what the words really where he could just make out what it standed for.
The Topic title didn’t jump out at me except for the …teh (edit ). But I spotted the jumbled up writing right away even though I could work out what it meant.
Well, my native language isn’t English, and it worked just fine for me. I didn’t even notice something wrong with the title of this thread until mentioned by Moogle.
According to the research demonstrated in the quote, the first and last letters have to be in the same position, and only the middle letters can be arranged randomly. Therefore, that ‘teh’ in the title was misleading.
You know, I’ve seen this fact recently in about 3-4 different places told to me by completely unrelated people. However, I think it’s rather cool. Probably why I sometimes miss words when I’m reading. Wonder if it would work in other languages though?
I’d love to see something like that work in Japanese. Heheh.
That research must be true because, like moogle, I didn’t even notice antyhing wrnog wtih the tltie of tihs trhaed ecxpet the “teh” until I strated raeding it…
Having been exposed to IRC for a number of years, this ‘recent’ discovery doesn’t really surprise me. When you’ve had to interpret words packed with symbols, inappropriate letters and even numbers, you start to notice just how powerful the mind is.
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(Apart from proving a point, I’m very, VERY opposed to writing as demonstrated above. The concept of ‘personalizing’ words for whatever reason really drives me insane. We use a standard and constant method of written communication to make it easier to read. You all know who you are.)