(no subject)

[beachlass]

Blatantly stolen from a friend's facebook wall:

fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too
Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.
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 dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

Comments

[eshala.livejournal.com]

That is entirely cool.
Do you know where it is from? (not just the facebook entry)
I wonder what determines whether or not you/we can read it, if only 55 people out of 100 can read it without difficulty. It surprised me in the same way I was surprised when I found out that not everyone can read words upside down. The whole first/last letter thing makes sense -- too bad that isn't how most of my typos work out!

[beachlass.livejournal.com]

I seem to recall that it was linguistics/brain research published last year? Maybe?

I think my dad showed it to me first. *pause for your lack of surprise.

And I don't know about the 55/100 thing - because I think I only know people who can read it. (But, if it's genetic, and I first ran across it in the family circle, that might make sense).

[eshala.livejournal.com]

It would be interesting to hear from folks who can't read it.
I think that we had a poster with a similar thing posted in the shelter at one point.

There is 0 visibility out there right now, and they are calling for severe thunderstorms for later, all of which is making me even less excited about driving to KW. Wish I could magically transport myself over to you, for a day spent snuggled up watching movies - or even Bones - knitting and possibly even eating yummy food.

[beachlass.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes please.

[itcomesinphases.livejournal.com]

I was like: Whoa.

I can read that!

*feels moderately special*

[beachlass.livejournal.com]

*pats* You are special.

[rainjoyous.livejournal.com]

Hee, my mum sent me this one once! It is amazing how the mind can just . . . do that. You don't even have to struggle, you can *skim* read it. Blessed brain, sometimes your weirdness works in wonderful ways ^^

[beachlass.livejournal.com]

I think that when I've first seen it, I don't even realize that I'm reading scrambled words for a moment. It is really cool.

I didn't realize I needed glasses for a while, I think because I was using word shapes to compensate for not seeing the letters clearly.

[lil-birdie.livejournal.com]

Actually hey say that nearly everybody can read that, not just 55%.

[beachlass.livejournal.com]

That makes a lot more sense. It's interesting that the urban myth evolution of this is towards exclusivism - making people feel somewhat special that they are part of the slight majority that can read it.