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RichardE

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Arcdiocng to a recsreah at Cmrdaibge Uinvrtiesy, it dseon't mteatr in waht oredr the leertts in a wrod are. The olny iptrmaont tnihg is taht the fsrit and lsat leettr be in the rhgit palce.

The rset can be a tatol mses and you can slitl raed it wiohtut pobrelm. Tihs is bsuaece the hamun mnid deos not raed eevry letetr by iteslf, but the wrod as a wohle.
 
Iron Woode

Iron Woode

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Originally posted by: RichardE
Arcdiocng to a recsreah at Cmrdaibge Uinvrtiesy, it dseon't mteatr in waht oredr the leertts in a wrod are. The olny iptrmaont tnihg is taht the fsrit and lsat leettr be in the rhgit palce.

The rset can be a tatol mses and you can slitl raed it wiohtut pobrelm. Tihs is bsuaece the hamun mnid deos not raed eevry letetr by iteslf, but the wrod as a wohle.
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Originally posted by: Iron Woode
Originally posted by: RichardE
Arcdiocng to a recsreah at Cmrdaibge Uinvrtiesy, it dseon't mteatr in waht oredr the leertts in a wrod are. The olny iptrmaont tnihg is taht the fsrit and lsat leettr be in the rhgit palce.

The rset can be a tatol mses and you can slitl raed it wiohtut pobrelm. Tihs is bsuaece the hamun mnid deos not raed eevry letetr by iteslf, but the wrod as a wohle.
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OMG taht is so vrey treu
 
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skace

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You must know the word before hand and there is a limit on how many letters the words can be before your mind can no longer decrypt them on the fly.
 
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loic2003

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Originally posted by: Iron Woode
Originally posted by: RichardE
Arcdiocng to a recsreah at Cmrdaibge Uinvrtiesy, it dseon't mteatr in waht oredr the leertts in a wrod are. The olny iptrmaont tnihg is taht the fsrit and lsat leettr be in the rhgit palce.

The rset can be a tatol mses and you can slitl raed it wiohtut pobrelm. Tihs is bsuaece the hamun mnid deos not raed eevry letetr by iteslf, but the wrod as a wohle.
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Iron Woode: The smart chap who didn't realise that the first and last letters had to be in the correct position despite it being fairly clearly stated, but nevertheless decided to be a cocky smartass suddenly realises he is in fact, a tard...

Nice.
 
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Rayden

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Originally posted by: loic2003
Originally posted by: Iron Woode
Originally posted by: RichardE
Arcdiocng to a recsreah at Cmrdaibge Uinvrtiesy, it dseon't mteatr in waht oredr the leertts in a wrod are. The olny iptrmaont tnihg is taht the fsrit and lsat leettr be in the rhgit palce.

The rset can be a tatol mses and you can slitl raed it wiohtut pobrelm. Tihs is bsuaece the hamun mnid deos not raed eevry letetr by iteslf, but the wrod as a wohle.
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Iron Woode: The smart chap who didn't realise that the first and last letters had to be in the correct position despite it being fairly clearly stated, but nevertheless decided to be a cocky smartass suddenly realises he is in fact, a tard...

Nice.
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Yaeh, I had to raed toshe wrdos a culope tmies bfreoe I frgueid tehm out. :)
 
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Kyteland

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Follow-up: Can You Raed Tihs? meal worms writes "A Slashdot article appearing last Monday, which reported on the claim that scrambled words are legible as long as first and last letters are in place, was circulated to the University of British Columbia's Linguistics department. An interesting counter-example resulted:

"Anidroccg to crad cniyrrag lcitsiugnis planoissefors at an uemannd, utisreviny in Bsitirh Cibmuloa, and crartnoy to the duoibus cmials of the ueticnd rcraeseh, a slpmie, macinahcel ioisrevnn of ianretnl cretcarahs araepps sneiciffut to csufnoe the eadyrevy oekoolnr."

As demonstrated, a simple inversion of the internal characters results in a text which is relatively hard to decipher."

http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/25/2350239&tid=167
 
jadinolf

jadinolf

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Originally posted by: RichardE
Arcdiocng to a recsreah at Cmrdaibge Uinvrtiesy, it dseon't mteatr in waht oredr the leertts in a wrod are. The olny iptrmaont tnihg is taht the fsrit and lsat leettr be in the rhgit palce.

The rset can be a tatol mses and you can slitl raed it wiohtut pobrelm. Tihs is bsuaece the hamun mnid deos not raed eevry letetr by iteslf, but the wrod as a wohle.
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Yep, old and stupid. :(
 
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