Spelling

[Little Bang]

Read this, it is astonishing

I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The
phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid ! Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch taem at
Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod
are, the iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteers 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. Such a cdonition is arppoirately cllaed

Typoglycemia
Amzanig huh? and yuo awlyas thought slpeling was ipmorantt

[Buffy]

...a fact horrifyingly well exploited by spammers these days...

Cehers,
Bffuy

[OpenMind5]

Yes....but just because you can read it...doesn't mean you should fill out resumes that way...

Op5

[Little Bang]

The point is that it is just another amazing ability of the human mind.

[Boerseun]

Ptrety bolody asoewme!

I say!

[infamous]

Originally Posted by Little Bang

Read this, it is astonishing

I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The
phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid ! Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch taem at
Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod
are, the iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteers 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. Such a cdonition is arppoirately cllaed

Typoglycemia
Amzanig huh? and yuo awlyas thought slpeling was ipmorantt

What is utterly astonishing is how easy this was for me to read. The second I quite judging the correctness of the spelling, I zipped right through it. Amazing

[alxian]

for it to work though you have to recognize the words in the first place before decoding them. you can't throw in too many words that don't occur in common converstion or people will not recognize them immediately ruining the experience.

makes you wonder then of the millon or so words in the english language make up the working vocabulary of most people. that is how many words do most people immediately recognize. how do we store all of that information.

[Chacmool]

Spare a thought for proofreaders and editors - they must suppress this amazing ability in order to do their job.

[Turtle]

___Perhaps a better term is "tune" the ability, rather than "suppress" it. I notoriously misspell words here, so I adopted the edit phrase "speelling airs". On reading the first post here, it looks like "speelling" fits the first/last letter mode, but "airs" is simply an entirely different word; a quasi-homophone.
___Itt apeers that reeding werds rekwires sveral deekoding teckneeks. Fascinating.

[GAHD]

A similar thing some times happens with me. Because I know french & english, with a smattering of spanish, I can sometimes understand bits and peices of other latin-derived languages(Eg portugese), and can decode some latin despite never learning it.

Anyone else have similar experiences?