Saturday, July 15, 2006

Spelling

Can you raed tihs? Olny srmat poelpe can.
Hhu, not rlaely... alutlcay eodervyby can. It wlil olny dneped if you can raed Einlsgh, ousbvoily.

"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 in waht 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 tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!"

Of couse spelling is important. Indeed it is. But for other purposes, let's not mess things up.

2 Comments:

Blogger Ash said...

That is absolutely the coolest thing I've seen in an age. Somehow my linguistics professors never got around to mentioning that little trick :)

9:52 PM  
Blogger Maria Elisa Orsini said...

The human brain is an amazing, isn't it? :)

6:02 PM  

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