OT: Weird Reading

S'mee AKA Jani said:

Miguel (DH) forwarded this to me from work today:

"Typoglycemia: Don't delete this because it looks weird. Believe it or
not you can read it.

I 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 deosn't mttaer inwaht oredr the ltteers in a
wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer
be 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 thought slpeling was ipmorantt."

Well, I was surprised...

The brain is capable of amazing things. It's a common proofreaders trick to
read text backwards so your brain doesn't read what it *expects* to see in
the context of a sentence; thus you pick up on typos and stuff like that 🙂

Jill

(S'mee AKA Jani) said:

Miguel (DH) forwarded this to me from work today:

"Typoglycemia: Don't delete this because it looks weird. Believe it or
not you can read it.

I 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 deosn't mttaer inwaht oredr the ltteers in a
wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be
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 thought slpeling was ipmorantt."

Well, I was surprised...

Took me about 10 seconds to read that. No hesitation. That's so cool!

Carol

S'mee AKA Jani said:

Miguel (DH) forwarded this to me from work today:

"Typoglycemia: Don't delete this because it looks weird. Believe it or
not you can read it.

<snip of scrambled text>

It is neat that we can read and comprehend this text, but don't put too
much stock in the "University of Cambridge" study that supposedly shows
that spelling isn't important as long as the first and last letters of
the word are in place. There isn't any back up that there ever *was*
such a study (http://www.snopes.com/language/apocryph/cambridge.asp)and
it only applies to folks who are already at least semi-proficient in
reading for context. This would completely throw a beginning reader --
especially one who is learning in a phonics-only environment. The
important factors that allow us to understand, comprehend and "read"
the jumbled words are context and sentence structure (the grammar).
Beginning readers do a lot of what you did to read this -- they look at
the first letter (or first few letters), they make predictions based on
what they've already read in the sentence (fex, in the sentence, "My
dog ran after the c__" a reader would logically insert the word, "cat"
or "car" depending on his/her most ready frame of reference or other
contextual clues available -- pictures, prior story content.)

So, it's not a matter of demonstrating that spelling isn't important,
as this implies, as it is a matter of demonstrating the benefit of
being a proficient and practiced reader.

Alexis

One time on Usenet said:

S'mee AKA Jani said:

Miguel (DH) forwarded this to me from work today:

"Typoglycemia: Don't delete this because it looks weird. Believe it or
not you can read it.

<snip of scrambled text>

It is neat that we can read and comprehend this text, but don't put too
much stock in the "University of Cambridge" study that supposedly shows
that spelling isn't important as long as the first and last letters of
the word are in place. There isn't any back up that there ever *was*
such a study (http://www.snopes.com/language/apocryph/cambridge.asp)and
it only applies to folks who are already at least semi-proficient in
reading for context. This would completely throw a beginning reader --
especially one who is learning in a phonics-only environment. The
important factors that allow us to understand, comprehend and "read"
the jumbled words are context and sentence structure (the grammar).
Beginning readers do a lot of what you did to read this -- they look at
the first letter (or first few letters), they make predictions based on
what they've already read in the sentence (fex, in the sentence, "My
dog ran after the c__" a reader would logically insert the word, "cat"
or "car" depending on his/her most ready frame of reference or other
contextual clues available -- pictures, prior story content.)

So, it's not a matter of demonstrating that spelling isn't important,
as this implies, as it is a matter of demonstrating the benefit of
being a proficient and practiced reader.

Aw, killjoy. I still got a kick out of it... ;-)

--
Jani in WA (S'mee)
~ mom, VidGamer, novice cook, dieter ~

S'mee AKA Jani said:

Aw, killjoy. I still got a kick out of it... ;-)

Yeah, sorry 'bout that <g>

S'mee AKA Jani said:

Aw, killjoy. I still got a kick out of it... ;-)

Yeah, sorry 'bout that <g>

On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 20:18:17 GMT, [email hidden]

(S'mee AKA Jani) said:

Miguel (DH) forwarded this to me from work today:

"Typoglycemia: Don't delete this because it looks weird. Believe it or
not you can read it.

<snip>

Very cool. I read the whole thing almost as fast as I would have had
it been properly spelled. My biarn is samrter tahn I touhght.

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
AAC(F)BV66.0748.CA

"If the soup had been as hot as the claret, if the claret had been as
old as the bird, and if the bird's breasts had been as full as the
waitress's, it would have been a very good dinner."

-- Duncan Hines

To reply, replace "spaminator" with "cox"

On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 20:18:17 GMT, [email hidden]

(S'mee AKA Jani) said:

Miguel (DH) forwarded this to me from work today:

"Typoglycemia: Don't delete this because it looks weird. Believe it or
not you can read it.

<snip>

Very cool. I read the whole thing almost as fast as I would have had
it been properly spelled. My biarn is samrter tahn I touhght.

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
AAC(F)BV66.0748.CA

"If the soup had been as hot as the claret, if the claret had been as
old as the bird, and if the bird's breasts had been as full as the
waitress's, it would have been a very good dinner."

-- Duncan Hines

To reply, replace "spaminator" with "cox"

On Fri 05 Aug 2005 07:35:13p, Terry Pulliam Burd wrote in rec.food.cooking:

Quoted message said:

On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 20:18:17 GMT, [email hidden]

(S'mee AKA Jani) said:

Miguel (DH) forwarded this to me from work today:

"Typoglycemia: Don't delete this because it looks weird. Believe it or
not you can read it.

<snip>

Very cool. I read the whole thing almost as fast as I would have had
it been properly spelled. My biarn is samrter tahn I touhght.

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
AAC(F)BV66.0748.CA

Hell, Terry, that's because you're always reading that legal gobbledigook!
:-))

--
Wayne Boatwright *¿*
____________________________________________

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
Sam Goldwyn, 1882-1974

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On Fri 05 Aug 2005 07:35:13p, Terry Pulliam Burd wrote in rec.food.cooking:

Quoted message said:

On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 20:18:17 GMT, [email hidden]

(S'mee AKA Jani) said:

Miguel (DH) forwarded this to me from work today:

"Typoglycemia: Don't delete this because it looks weird. Believe it or
not you can read it.

<snip>

Very cool. I read the whole thing almost as fast as I would have had
it been properly spelled. My biarn is samrter tahn I touhght.

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
AAC(F)BV66.0748.CA

Hell, Terry, that's because you're always reading that legal gobbledigook!
:-))

--
Wayne Boatwright *¿*
____________________________________________

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
Sam Goldwyn, 1882-1974

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