quote: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 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.
Wlel, waht do you konw!
Kind of thought provoking isn't it?
(Knid of thugoht porkoving ins't it?)
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Sorry Hobbes, I was out of town last week. Sigh!!
What do you suppose the limits are to this result? How long can a word be, before scrambling the middle letters makes it unintelligble? How common does the work need to be? Does it work as well if you leave out letters or substitute incorrect letters?
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Zalamosa, I can't get even one of your words, could you try using them in a sentence. I suspect that context is also extremely important.
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(Just so you know Papa Moose, I didn't link yours since Geoff's thread had a link to it via Ralphie. ).
Aren't rabbits supposed to be my natural prey? Well I guess techincally not since we don't occupy similar geographic locations so I guess the smilie doesn't represent me bitting you...
Those words aren't really fair because they're all rather obselete (and that's kind of my point -- I chose these because I figured no one would be likely to know them), but okay:
If they don't shore this wall up soon, it will lasabatce.
The general sent his soucrrur forth to spy on the enemy's camp.
The warm oceans here are abundant will all types of nitedrian.
NOTE: I can't vouch for my jumbles. They were done halisity and so there may be errors.
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Are those jumbles done in the same manner as the email (i.e. first and last letter are correct)?
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Yep. But the words are either obsolete or very specialized.
I should have known that this was going to become a challenge. I'll confirm right answers -- as long as you all make sure that when you teach your kids or any other yunguns you influence to read, you teach them phonetics and at the same time work with them to develop sight words.
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So, I go and open up my e-mail and guess what's in the darn box!
quote: Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde 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 be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
It's going to live forever.
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I also noted while reading this thing that my reading rate dips slightly. This is because the eye has to glance at each word and decode it -- you can't take chunks of a sentence together [well except for when there's a two or three letter word i.e. in, at, etc.]. Or at least I couldn't the first time I read it.
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After looking at the original, I am quite confident that the spelling is not completely random, double consanants are fall together far more often than would be expected for random permutations.
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IT'S NOT TRUE!!! It's NOT a real study, it's someone's misunderstanding of a study about HEARING published in Nature in 1999! And I'm not even gonna bother linking to snopes again!
*slightly calmer* And I have now seen this bloody thing TWENTY-TWO times!
I saw the thread title, and I hesitated. But I rather trusted that someone who is so aware of the necessity of scientific accuracy would have checked this with snopes or hoaxbusters or someone. *whimpers*
Make it stop. Please?
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I don't know about Celia, but I am proud I was able to acheive that level of spelling mis-mastery.
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The third one is doable albeit very specialized. The second one is possible albeit brutal because it's an alternate spelling of an obselete term -- but one that it's possible one of our learned Jatraqueros has read it (especially in the context of military history/royal history of medieval Europe or of classical Greece/Rome). The first one is so obselete as to be an exercise in endless frustration.
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I'm going to start using lasabatce in sentences.
lasabatce \las-uh-BOT-kee\ 1. to crumble, especially into water.
Venice shimmers with the ghosts of the centuries-dead, and I take a long, slow look from the bridge over the Grand Canal, dreading the day these buildings finally lasabatce to the sea.
I think that's a lovely word kat. I would use it. EDIT: did you make the definition up or is it an actual Italian word? Because if you made it up, it's remarkably close to the actual definition.
And: I bow to the mighty furred one, although I thought that you'd get the third one and not the first one.
1. labascate -- verb = to begin to slide or tilt
2. What's 'scourrur'? The word I based it on is scurrour (alt. splg. = scurrier) -- noun = a scout
3. neritidan (alt. splg. = nerite) -- noun = a type of brightly-shelled gastropod found near warm water seas; a type of sea-snail.
Again: I didn't know these words -- well, except for scurrier, but I didn't know the alternate spelling. I simply plucked them at random from the dictionary to prove my point.
I think that's a lovely word kat. I would use it. EDIT: did you make the definition up or is it an actual Italian word? Because if you made it up, it's remarkably close to the actual definition
*curtseys*
I made the defnition up, but took it from the context of your sentence. It had to mean something close to that, and I've been dreaming about Venice lately, so I wanted to include the ocean.
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