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[grannyjill]

Have you all seen this reseach project result? Not poetry, but an interesting comment on how we read (it would explain why on reading back waht I have written I fail to see typos)

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

[Touchstone]

It is clever but you know it's basically a trick, right? There is an interesting write up about it from a genuine "Cmabrigde Uinervtisy" researcher, here: http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/matt...Cmabrigde/

[grannyjill]

I read the article. It says that in the sentences the words have been chosen carefully and jumbled in a certain/predictable way deliberately to make the statement true- but the conclusion was 'yes' it is a fact that you can read sentences where the letters are jumbled, so long as the first and last letters remain the same...but, states that this isn't the case if the 'jumbling' is done in a more complex way in less predictable sentences.

However when I read the complex, less predictable sentences I didn't find that to be the case. I was able to read them fluently with no problem (with the exception of one word 'magltheuansr'....which stopped me in my tracks for a moment)....So, my reading of the article doesn't make me conclude that it is a trick.

Thank you for pointing the article out to me, I was fascinated to read all about it.

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It took me 3 times to type this out correctly after reading that so thank U very much for planting that seed of dysfunction in my head..

[grannyjill]

Any time, my freind, any time (ha, ha)

[addy]

I've heard this as well (though I didn't know the official study)... something about our brain being wired to arrange things into a recognizable picture or pattern, coupled with our tendency to skim. We assume, and therefore see, what we expect to see. Your right though, it works best for more common words

[billy]

like jill i have no problem with most sentences written that way, some words when done on there own can cause a problem but sentences are a doddle. i remember reading the Cambridge thing when it came out many years ago. i wonder what a poem would read like