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Yian
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Posted: 1st Oct 2003 22:53
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The Mind Is an Amazing Thing

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are in; 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 itslef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

Amzanig huh?

-john D.
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Andrew
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Posted: 1st Oct 2003 22:55
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Dont understand you!!!! LOL

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Yian
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Posted: 1st Oct 2003 22:59
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dunno...maybe if you look at the monitor from a bit further away?

-john D.
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QuothTheRaven
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Posted: 1st Oct 2003 23:09
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Hm...that is prtety amaznig. I've noticed it before, all on my own, how if I read the first few letters of a word my mind automatically completes it for me.

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ReD_eYe
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Posted: 1st Oct 2003 23:21
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thats clever! i could understand that sentence pretty damn well, took a little extra brain power at times but still very cool


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Yian
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Posted: 1st Oct 2003 23:40
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i know

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Preston C
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Posted: 1st Oct 2003 23:41
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my dad showed me this before, for the rest of the night that night, I felt dumb


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denki
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Posted: 2nd Oct 2003 00:01
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Thats very good...

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the_winch
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Posted: 2nd Oct 2003 00:02
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I have used that technique for the last 10 years when taking notes at school. You can write much faster if you only bother writeing the first and last letters correctly and just get the general shape of the middle letters. You can also leave out a lot of the letters in big words as long as you get the lenght of the word approximatly the same. Didn't do much for my spelling and drove most of my teachers mad.
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Andrew
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Posted: 2nd Oct 2003 00:03
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I got it now LOL

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MikeS
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Posted: 2nd Oct 2003 01:11
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John, by any chance have you been at the Earth's Special Force's forums?



A book? I hate book. Book is stupid.
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Dave J
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Posted: 2nd Oct 2003 02:49
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That was on The Panel (Australian Talkshow) a couple weeks ago.


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andrew11
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Posted: 2nd Oct 2003 06:06
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Taths petrty clol. I got an eamil lkie tihs a few wekes ago.

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Flashing Blade
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Posted: 2nd Oct 2003 13:14
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A could cloud cnofsue the stiaution.
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Richard Davey
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Posted: 2nd Oct 2003 15:06
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Anidroccg to crad cniyrrag lcitsiugnis planoissefors at an uemannd,
utisreviny in Bsitirh Cibmuloa, and crartnoy to the duoibus cmials of the
ueticnd rcraeseh, a slpmie, macinahcel ioisrevnn of ianretnl cretcarahs
araepps sneiciffut to csufnoe the eadyrevy oekoolnr.

Cheers,

Rich

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Van B
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Posted: 2nd Oct 2003 15:15
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Say it out loud really fast and it sounds like you have a sinus problem, or a hairlip.


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Dave J
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Posted: 2nd Oct 2003 16:51
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Quote: "Anidroccg to crad cniyrrag lcitsiugnis planoissefors at an uemannd,
utisreviny in Bsitirh Cibmuloa, and crartnoy to the duoibus cmials of the
ueticnd rcraeseh, a slpmie, macinahcel ioisrevnn of ianretnl cretcarahs
araepps sneiciffut to csufnoe the eadyrevy oekoolnr."


Something about reversed internal characters confusing everyday onlookers?


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Wiggett
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Posted: 2nd Oct 2003 17:22
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thats no big news, hell anyone who has spent as much time on chat programs like msn as i have will have picked up skipping errors no problem. teh, taht, missdion, common keyboard rolling errors due to quiick keyboard typing with cold fingers. teh comes up a lot.



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HZence
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Quote: "Anidroccg to crad cniyrrag lcitsiugnis planoissefors at an uemannd,
utisreviny in Bsitirh Cibmuloa, and crartnoy to the duoibus cmials of the
ueticnd rcraeseh, a slpmie, macinahcel ioisrevnn of ianretnl cretcarahs
araepps sneiciffut to csufnoe the eadyrevy oekoolnr"


Didn't understand that one rich...

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Dave J
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Posted: 3rd Oct 2003 05:06
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Each of his words have the first and last letter in place but the middle letters in reverse order. So for the first word:

Anidroccg becomes According

Anyway, I think Rich is trying to get the point across that the original statement about just the first and last letters be in the right place to read it, is incorrect.


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BatVink
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Posted: 3rd Oct 2003 16:53
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Quote: "topspot"


That's a spoonerism, and it's full of shining wit (...think about it)

I always type filed instead of filed, er...field. Not good for a tecchie writing programming specs

And the spellchecker never complains because it's not a mis-spelling.

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Dave J
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Posted: 3rd Oct 2003 18:06
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Yeah, the spellchecker won't pick up on the wrong their/there as well or weather/whether or that damn practise/practice - I still don't know which practise to use in which occasion.


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