Waht do you tnhik aoubt tihs selplnig?

I thnik you maent to say:

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 ttoal 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.

Yeah I read a paragraph with this type or spelling before and noticed something wrong with it, but could read the whole thing with no problem.

Even more shocking…

sIt’n ti ewidr ohw alnguaeg cna eb emssde iwht eyt oyu tslil nuderstadn hwta si ebign asdi?

@SavoirFaire plagairism isn’t a hobby of mine.

@RealEyesRealizeRealLies The first and last letters have to be in the same position.

No they don’t.

I thought it was some lazy kid who was texting instead of writing out proper words. I couldn’t make out what it said.

There’s a lot more about this research here

Very cool, @RealEyesRealizeRealLies ! As soon as I got the first word it all fell into place. The value of context, I guess.

I read it as easily as though it were spelt correctly, but then i’m fluent in Latvian ;¬}

I couldn’t read @RealEyesRealizeRealLies version quickly but the other examples I read no bother. I still took longer than I usually do to read – I had to look at each word where as normally I would not read the commonly used words like what

I think it’s pretty neat. I found reading it quickly makes a huge difference, too.

Not after I realized it was suppose to be spelled that badly.

I love things like that about how our brains work fascinating. I heard on the show “Bones” that our eyes/brain can get used to making an upside down environment the norm in 3 days or so. Is something like that true?

I’ve heard of that too, not just from Bones. It’s amazing the patterns we can discern in seemingly random stuff.

@pshizzle Can’t really plagiarize a meme. That’s kind of the point.

I remember seeing a YouTube video which explained this, but I can’t find it at the moment. This blog post will do though. The point is, it doens’t really work. Try it with bigger, more complex words and you won’t be able to discern much. This little site will scramble up any sentence you type in and you can see for yourself. This article from Fox News also explains it pretty well. The link @downtide posted has good info too.

Nkow robpmel ta laa. Edar it repfectyl. WTB…..naydoby ese my arc kyes?

@Cruiser : Did you check in the couch cushions? ;-)

@JilltheTooth Yes…no keys but I found Bob Barker in there eating some moldy popcorn. Not a pretty sight.

Definitzgp eaysss tgskvo dread, onno bpem atlall.

Of course I could read it. That didn’t make it any less annoying to read!

A lot of people have used examples where the first and last letters are not in the correct place. That not only make it tougher to read but also leaves an element of ambiguity as there may be multiple words with almost the same letters (like without following that rule, secret and crest can be spelled as etscre and etscr, defrost and forested as rotsedf and rotsedfe)
Hence, the study says that “olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae”

Your brain doesn’t even read every letter of every word anyway, so it’s not really that damn surprising. Hell, your brain doesn’t even read every word of every sentence.

I think it looks like somebody who’d Fluther drunk or druther flunk. I had to do a double take. Read it prefectly on first viewing.