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! if you can raed tihs rpsoet it.


Strange..isn't it? =)EYS TI IS!

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I knew this before, but I don't think it has entirely to do with that one fact. It has a lot to do with experience reading sentences and knowing what should grammatically follow the last word.

For instance, reading a bunch of random words that are misspelled in the same fashion would be harder. Still insane though.

I'm surprised how easy I read that and I'm a rteard. LOL

There is an amazing amount of redundancy built into any language. The book Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick, published in 1987, had a section about this topic.

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If ewe kan reed that, thank a teecher.

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In my study of Hebrew, it doesn't exist as it did when the old testament was written, and there were no vowels in the original language. translators only added the vowels several hundred years ago to aid modern readers. it seems really hard to understand how they could follow the language without vowels, but there was an exercise that was similar to this. it had a paragraph in english with all the vowels removed. it was easy to read it, because when a person understands the language, we don't need vowels. same thing with the hebrew. it was interesting.

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Speaking of vowels, for the longest time when I was a kid, I thought when people said "bowels" they were saying "vowels." So I did a Beavis and Butt-head in English class a little bit too much.

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So....when you watched "Wheel of Fortune" you thought they were saying "Vanna, I'd like to buy a BOWEL".....???? :thumbleft:

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