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Geek Culture / Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy

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CattleRustler
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Posted: 17th Feb 2006 18:15
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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 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.

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Jeku
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Posted: 17th Feb 2006 18:21
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That is the most amazing thing I've seen in a long time. I've heard of this phenomenon before, but never read into it much (pun not intended).

Wow, how long did that take to type out? :-P


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David T
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Posted: 17th Feb 2006 18:25
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Yup, saw this a while ago on the BBC - very cool. I have a friend who wrote a pc program that shuffled letters around in words for you, and it does work. Pretty neat.

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Chris K
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Posted: 17th Feb 2006 19:04
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I've seen something that's even more drastic than that.

It starts off normal writing then just gets more and more screwed up. Turns out we don't actually even read any of a lot of the words. You can literally just put random symbols in there like greek letters and numbers (?!).

A lot of it is from anticipating what they are going to say, which is I guess why no one read it as "that I cloud actually".

(Did anyone read that wrong?)

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Posted: 17th Feb 2006 20:34
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Altnerappy if you rsrevee all of the lrettes in the wrod it bemoces mcuh harder hedrar to raed.

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Rich posted this a couple of years ago. If I remember rightly, it turned into a very long thread of total garbage!

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ive seen this years ago at school, turns out in america that after the people educated in the 70's (grades K-5) this only works. Before the 70's they didnt teach the kids to spell phonetically, just the words... my teacher had a hard time decyphering what it said.

At least thats what she told me.,

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That's really bizarre!


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Ive somewhat knew this already.....xD

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Posted: 17th Feb 2006 21:22
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i read like this too but its dangerous for perception, like someone reffered me to bww.com and i read bmw.com

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Posted: 17th Feb 2006 21:42
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hloy carp tahts aewomse!

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I think we can read this, but what about the foriegn kid?

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vrey iretennistg!

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Posted: 17th Feb 2006 22:57
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This sort of thing was mentioned (probably in passing), when I was at school - 20 odd years ago, so its not terribly new research. It just shows how superior we are, to say, the Lumbricus terrestris

I should point out, though, that Cattlerustler's spelling is awful... Kids, if you want to learn to spell, dont go near Cattlerustler...

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I learned about this a few years ago in one of my classes. It's pretty cool the mind can do alot of unbelievable things. It's all because the human mind is just a pattern recognition machine. Everything we do the mind does through pattern recognition.
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Posted: 17th Feb 2006 23:08 Edited at: 17th Feb 2006 23:09
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Quote: "I think we can read this, but what about the foriegn kid?"

good pnoit

Quote: "Turns out we don't actually even read any of a lot of the words. You can literally just put random symbols in there like greek letters and numbers (?!).
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1337 speech proved that ages ago...

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I give it four more posts before someone cracks open the ol' 1337 Translator.

What a great big bundle of what-in-the-name-of-god-were-you-thinking? that was.

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Peter,

You spelt 'Good' worng

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Posted: 18th Feb 2006 00:30 Edited at: 18th Feb 2006 00:37
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Hmm, is this really true?

I think someone in the old RGT posted something that disproved this. Heres my rough memory of the quote, in first person.

Aougtlhh it is dseuoblts taht the hmaun mnid is eeelrtmxy poeufwrl, I hvae dbuots aoubt this sudty. Wlhie this mhgit aplpy to smoe wdros, i tnhik tihs can be doievrpsd by cneaitrg stceeenns cnnssiitog mtlsoy of lhtgeny, caeiolpmtcd wdros. It might also be psoilbse to mkae smoe wrdos ueaandlbre by sinetaprag the cooannntss form the vweols.

Reading that again, the post on RGT was much harder to read with only like 5 or less short words.


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Quote: "I give it four more posts before someone cracks open the ol' 1337 Translator."
just one more....

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Quote: " I think we can read this, but what about the foriegn kid?"

I can easily read that.
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Posted: 18th Feb 2006 02:22
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Yeah, this must be the third or fourth time it's been posted here, now.


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sooooooooo srory

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yaeh tihs hss bene potsed beofure me thniks


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Cattlez are so stueped.

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ha ha mega
did yuo see yuor picteur in teh ohter thraed?

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I think I remember that someone pointed out that if you add in certain patterns to the words it makes them harder to read? Let's test...

Tihs scnetnee has a slpmie prettan aeilppd to it to see if pnrettas mkae coisneherpmon any hedrar.

Tihs snetcene has a smplie petratn aplepid to it to see if prtetans mkae cisnheoerpomn any hdrear.

Is the top one easier, harder, or the same?

Maybe I'm remembering things I never read.

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Quote: "Is the top one easier, harder, or the same?"


You can't create a test like that because after reading the top one, we already know what the bottom one is going to say.


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I found it hard to understand.

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Exeat> This is true... It was real late when I posted that

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