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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 deosn’t mttaer inwaht 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 thought slpeling was ipmorantt.

NOTE: I found this while surfing around and was fairly amazed at how readible it was. The mind is amazing!

  • posted on 20 January 2005
  • by Jesse

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20 January 20051. Nathan Gottschall:

I was relaly azamed at the airltce psoted by Jssee Granedr on selpling and its ignsifincaicne in hmaun witring, but it olny sreves to hggihhlit the wsiodm of God and the geduranr of His ceariotn. Mcuh impssered, Nathan.

20 January 20052. amt:

we had an example like this in my grad class last semester, and it was really interesting! =)

there was another one i thought was wild - a rendition of a child's story written as a it might be seen by a person with a learning disability.

20 January 20053. JDG:

Oh yeah! We had a teacher education day and we did an excercise just like that. It was amazing how disorienting missing and misplaced letters can be! Talk about an eye opener.

20 January 20054. Kristina:

Is that what you were trying to show me today? That is funny.

20 January 20055. Jessica Clum:

Yay for spelling not being important. I knew it all along, it just took a while for everone else to catch on!!

20 January 20056. JDG:

Oh no. Not sure this English teacher thought through all the ramifications of posting something like this. Alright, you can misspell, so long as the first and last letter are correct, how 'bout that? :-P

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