spndnchz Posted May 8, 2008 Report Share Posted May 8, 2008 Anyone ever see this (or read it) had my last exam today and the prof gave us this on the way out the door: Can you raed tihs? Olny srmat poelpe can. 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! Maybe he gave it out to be philosophical or something, maybe he's just wierd? -Peace out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SDS Posted May 8, 2008 Report Share Posted May 8, 2008 it's been around the internet, but no research was done at Cambridge on it. So, it's a bit of a hoax. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom webster Posted May 8, 2008 Report Share Posted May 8, 2008 Anyone ever see this (or read it) had my last exam today and the prof gave us this on the way out the door: Can you raed tihs? Olny srmat poelpe can. 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! Maybe he gave it out to be philosophical or something, maybe he's just wierd? -Peace out. Waht, you tyrnig to put slepl cehck out of bsinuess? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evil_otto Posted May 9, 2008 Report Share Posted May 9, 2008 Looks like the spelling quality of half the emails I get every day. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2ForTripping Posted May 9, 2008 Report Share Posted May 9, 2008 Looks like the spelling quality of half the emails I get every day. :) and a good number of posters on this board!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2ForTripping Posted May 9, 2008 Report Share Posted May 9, 2008 :lol: Some of the "educated" folks on here may cry foul by saying it was a fragment of a sentence, indeed it was but, the initial post was about spelling and not sentence structure. So my intial reply still holds true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PASabreFan Posted May 9, 2008 Report Share Posted May 9, 2008 If it doesn't matter what order the letters are, why is the first letter in all of the words the actual first letter? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taro T Posted May 10, 2008 Report Share Posted May 10, 2008 If it doesn't matter what order the letters are, why is the first letter in all of the words the actual first letter? Because they do matter. :doh: The "frist and lsat" letters (but not the gmac nor gre ones) apparently are the ones that do matter. Welcome back. :beer: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PASabreFan Posted May 10, 2008 Report Share Posted May 10, 2008 Because they do matter. :doh: The "frist and lsat" letters (but not the gmac nor gre ones) apparently are the ones that do matter. Welcome back. :beer: I curse Evelyn Woods. Ptooey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JujuFish Posted May 10, 2008 Report Share Posted May 10, 2008 Older than the internet.:P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carpandean Posted May 10, 2008 Report Share Posted May 10, 2008 I saw this on a t-shirt in Kohl's the other day. It is pretty cool how quickly you can read that paragraph. As a kid, I played a game where you had to look at the answer in a mirror to read it (the words were backward), but I never bothered. I just read it as written. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabregoats Posted May 12, 2008 Report Share Posted May 12, 2008 I saw this on a t-shirt in Kohl's the other day. It is pretty cool how quickly you can read that paragraph. As a kid, I played a game where you had to look at the answer in a mirror to read it (the words were backward), but I never bothered. I just read it as written. that is also the way leonardo davinci would write partly because of being left handed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonInBuffalo Posted May 12, 2008 Report Share Posted May 12, 2008 somewhat related - a linguistics professor told us that you actually only hear a fraction of what the other person is saying to you during a conversation. Your brain fills in the rest based on experience/context, giving you the (false) impression that you heard the entire thing. If the other person put a random unexpected word into the middle of a sentence, you would most likely ask him to repeat what he said because you didn't "hear" that word. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
That Aud Smell Posted May 12, 2008 Report Share Posted May 12, 2008 cheese in the hizzouse. i enjoy those cognitive curiosity bits that make their way around the internet. while not linguistic in nature, one is also a favorite of mine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spndnchz Posted May 16, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 16, 2008 cheese in the hizzouse. i enjoy those cognitive curiosity bits that make their way around the internet. while not linguistic in nature, one is also a favorite of mine. snap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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