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Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh 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 is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses
and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed
ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe

ali-sama wrote:Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh 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 is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses
and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed
ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe

depends on how you were taught. Some people were taught using the "whole language" method. others were taught phonetically. others still, were taugth using a combonation of both.

Perhaps...but it takes extra time to read stuff out of place .

I can understand your post but that's because I read the word...and you weren't completely out and outright jibberish.

Also didn't go far enough...your first sentence could've looked like this

Aocdcnirg to a rsrecaeh at an Egislnh uvsreitiny, it dsone't metatr in waht oedrr the ltertes in a word are, the only iptrotnat thing is that the fsrit and last lteter are in the rghit plcae.

Some words are easier to spell in the mind...but with enough you can make even this thought fall into completly incoherent. And CC has a point...it does depend on how you were taught.

Col. Crackpot wrote:
depends on how you were taught. Some people were taught using the "whole language" method. others were taught phonetically. others still, were taugth using a combonation of both.

what´s the whole language method?

I understood it but it gave me a headache. I need some pills now.

Ghost Rider wrote:Perhaps...but it takes extra time to read stuff out of place .

I can understand your post but that's because I read the word...and you weren't completely out and outright jibberish.

Also didn't go far enough...your first sentence could've looked like this

Aocdcnirg to a rsrecaeh at an Egislnh uvsreitiny, it dsone't metatr in waht oedrr the ltertes in a word are, the only iptrotnat thing is that the fsrit and last lteter are in the rghit plcae.

Some words are easier to spell in the mind...but with enough you can make even this thought fall into completly incoherent. And CC has a point...it does depend on how you were taught.

I had to slow down on two of the words, but I was surprised how well I was able to read your senteces.

Yeah, my cousin has that as his away message, and I was halfway through the thing before I realized that the words were all out of whack

It's so true

i could read it just fine... thats freaky...

I could read those two as easily as I were reading anything else.

What's really scary is that Ali always types like that

The wonders of the human brain laid bare! Still, I prefer to spell words correctly, if only for the sake of not looking like an idiot.

I could understand that pretty well, oddly enough. But, I'll need to see more examples to see whether you can understand a word as long as the first and last letters are in the right place.

Ghost Rider wrote:Perhaps...but it takes extra time to read stuff out of place .

Not for me--I was half-way through before I figured out something was going on. Then, (probably since I "knew" it was wrong), I started mentally reading it in a monotone, machine voice "the... olny... iprmoetnt... tihng... is... taht... the..."

F*cking neat. I never knew that that was possible, but will have to play around with it some time.

Darth Garden Gnome wrote:The wonders of the human brain laid bare! Still, I prefer to spell words correctly, if only for the sake of not looking like an idiot.

Of course... *runs around madly correcting DGG's posts with a big red pen*

ali-sama wrote:Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh 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 is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses
and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed
ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe

Well according to a slight dyslexic, that makes my eyes bleed.

~ver

CelesKnight wrote:

Ghost Rider wrote:Perhaps...but it takes extra time to read stuff out of place .

Not for me--I was half-way through before I figured out something was going on. Then, (probably since I "knew" it was wrong), I started mentally reading it in a monotone, machine voice "the... olny... iprmoetnt... tihng... is... taht... the..."

F*cking neat. I never knew that that was possible, but will have to play around with it some time.

I was about three words through it.. But then, like I said, I have slight dyslexia, as well as transposition problems.

~ver

Fntisnaaicg! I was so irinugetd taht I mdae a qicuk Jvspaiarct to mglnae wodrs arcniodcg to the relus. Try it out hree, I've olny teetsd it in IE6 so aelpoigos if it dsoen't hpaepn in yuor bswoerr.

What I really wrote: Fascinating! I was so intrigued that I made a quick Javascript to mangle words according to the rules. Try it out here, I've only tested it in IE6 so apologies if it doesn't happen in your browser.

Ftsiatanc...I raed tugrohh the wohle tihng!!!!~Jason

Great, the English language declines further.

It should be said that this doesn't always work. Mangling certain words (for example, "through" -> "tugrohh") makes them incomprehensible.

Does this mean AOL-speak will now become a dialect?

Yea.......when I read relus, I didn't get it till i read the quote.~Jason

If this becomes a trend I'm going to be rather irate.

Gandalf wrote:If this becomes a trend I'm going to be rather irate.

You won't be the only one. The text in the first two scrambled posts was surprisingly legible, but The Third Man's post slowed me down a lot more. It depends on how badly scrambled the letters are and the ways you are taught to read, as well as relying on the very rigid sentence structure of the English language. It's also dependent on the consonant to vowel ratio of the language. If there's more than roughly two consonants for every vowel, it gets a lot more difficult. If there's a roughly equal ratio (e.g. Finnish has a 99/100 vs English 151/100), the results are completely unreadable.

Edi

Funky that text only slowed me down a little.

Guess I am a better English reader than I thought.