Interesting discovery at English University.

[thop]

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.

[J1NG]

Yuor rghit. Naet.

JN1G

[Brian R.]

What if you read phrases? Is the word order irrelevant as long as the first and last word are correct?

[Umfriend]

Of you course are! On hand other the, is this maybe not correct.

[PAugustin]

It's true, even as a non native english, I was able to read you without any trouble.
Err by the way, some people really have too muche time on their hands :/

[az]

Thop, that's fascinating!

AZ

[Technoid]

Mayby I should scan a "problem description" from one of our customers to show that some people think that repeated wave formations is actualy letters making up senteces

[Brian Ellis]

No doubt that this profound discovery was the result of a ten-year research project involving hundreds of people and costing £5 million of taxpayers' money. As an incidental benefit, two or three more PhDs are let loose on the public to waste even more money (doctors get higher salaries than research students) on futilities.

[cjolley]

Originally posted by Brian Ellis
No doubt that this profound discovery was the result of a ten-year research project involving hundreds of people and costing £5 million of taxpayers' money. As an incidental benefit, two or three more PhDs are let loose on the public to waste even more money (doctors get higher salaries than research students) on futilities.

You don't get it Brian.
This study explanes my entire grade school experience.
Thanks God!

chuck

[Nowhere]

It msut be ture snice I cuold raed the frist psot wohtiut any pblorem (even wtih my sitthy Eglsnih, ecpiseally tihs one )

Seriously...I can remember that I had sometimes messed up very similar words (difference only in the middle, and don't worry, the same context, I try to think when I read ) during reading...must be related.

[Gurm]

No no no.

This has to do with the fact that our brains are VERY good at error correction. It's true that we're less concerned with what order the letters are in a word and more concerned with which letters there are... but if you put all the wrong letters in you won't know what word it is, in spite of the first and last letter being correct.

Now, dyslexics on the other hand would just crap themselves outright over that example. Much like they do over normal english.

- Gurm

[az]

Exactly. And it wouldn't really work well without context. We guess a lot more than we actually read (which is one of the reasons it took me so long to realize I need glasses).

AZ

[thop]

Yes i think context is very important and i reading is more of a pattern matching anyway than actually reading.

I still think it's kinda amazing.

[bsdgeek]

Wow, that's really cool, never thought about this before.

[Dr Mordrid]

Then there are those of us who were taught speed-reading in middle school. Drives my wife nuts....

Dr. Mordrid