Re: off tiopc



On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 05:00:12 +0100, Sjouke Burry wrote:
> Pooh Bear wrote:
>> anthony wooldridge wrote:
>>
>>> I cnuolt 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 deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod
>>>are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer are in the
>>>rghit pclae The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a
>>>porbelm.Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef,
>>>but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was
>>> ipmorantt!
>>
>> It's astonishing. Albeit hardly new.
>>
>> I wonder if it works for non-native english speakers ( readers ).
>>
> Yep!(holland)

Does the smae phenomenon happen in other written languages? I mean,
you're talking about reading scrambled English, right? So I wonder if,
for example, it would work in Dutch or French or German or Spanish.
It'd be really interesting to rearrange some Katagana or Hiragana. ;-)
(Japanese syllabaries, not that I can read it.)

Cheers!
Rich


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