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Seomhting Iterensintg

12:58 / 19.09.03

got this in a forward today:

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 don't raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a
wlohe.

Go fugire.

Says some interesting things about the way we parse language, the level at which our brains are pattern matching instead of reading, and how effective a pattern matching engine our brain is to put all that together based on fuzzy matches and context. If you don't think about it, you can read the passage above normally.

14:41 / 19.09.03

The first time I logged on today, I glimpsed the title of this thread and went "Oh, great, I'm so ignorant, clearly this is the name of some world leader and/or place about which I know nothing". (Because "Seo" made me think of 'Seole', which actually it turns out I can't spell, and 'hting' made me thing of, um, Chinese words transliterated into English.)

The second time, I'd forgotten I'd thought that, and just read it straight off as "Something Interesting".

So there you go.

16:52 / 19.09.03

This has been going around for aaaaaaaaaaaages. It's been in the Conversation even.

However, I wrote an automated word messer that you can use to test it if you like.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

16:18 / 23.09.03

Hteer's hpoe ofr me eyt.

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12:20 / 24.09.03

Hteer's hpoe ofr me eyt.

weeeeellll...

the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae

...so maybe not.