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Group: alt.magick · Group Profile
Author: TomTom Date: May 18, 2007 09:58
"Douglas" cox.net> wrote in message
news:464D0117.5010308@cox.net...>
> "Albe to raed tihs?
> I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. But
> tahts 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, forwrad it to yuor
> feridns."
In this example, in addition to the first and last letters being in the
right place, there can be only very few extraneous letters added or
necessary letters taken away. It works best when all the letters of a word
and only the letters of that word are present, albeit in random order.
Consider this one, from poet Jack Prelutsky:
I thguoht d'I etirw ekil siht yadot
esuaceb ti demees ekil nuf.
ev'I tog on rehto nosaer,
tub I ylerus t'nod deen eno.
tI ylbaborp sesufnoc uoy
eht tsrif emit taht uoy ees
eht sdrow lla nettirw sdrswkcab...
ti osla delzzup em.
tuB won ev'I nettog desu ot ti,
dna yserus os evah uoy,
dna ev'I a llams noicipsus
taht uoy tsuj thgim yrt ti oot.
Here the letters, including the first and last, are incorrectly placed but
the pattern of the placement of the letters is predictably opposite to the
correct one.
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