Brain Test

[GeekMom]

I thought this was pretty amazing . . .

Brain Stuff . . . From Cambridge University.


O lny srmat poelpe can raed tihs.

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 deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer 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. Amzanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

[JTimmons]

Tath's petrty naet!

[mater]

That was neat. I guess I don't have to worry about spelling now.

[bigsteel15]

What the heck is this post about. All I see is a bunch of gbbsriieh that I can't read?

[Stormbringer]

Somebody forgot to use spell check.

[LinuxRandal]

Don't pass to a student!


O r Terhe b e a prenat tacher cocnerefne.

[vaking]

I know I will have few stones thrown at me for this post but from the perspective of view of former engineer this clearly shows how inefficient our language is. You can make so many changes to the text that is supposed to be typed and people still recognize what you meant. Now imagine that you had transposed numbers in some financial report like you just transposed letters in a text. What are the chances anybody would be able to read that report correctly? It means our language wastes characters and could be made shorter but it also makes our language more resilient. Without it if you miss one letter in the conversation on the street because of a noise you would have to start the conversation over since there is no way to recover what you have missed.

[mdutch]

I know I will have few stones thrown at me for this post but from the perspective of view of former engineer this clearly shows how inefficient our language is. You can make so many changes to the text that is supposed to be typed and people still recognize what you meant. Now imagine that you had transposed numbers in some financial report like you just transposed letters in a text. What are the chances anybody would be able to read that report correctly? It means our language wastes characters and could be made shorter but it also makes our language more resilient. Without it if you miss one letter in the conversation on the street because of a noise you would have to start the conversation over since there is no way to recover what you have missed.

Yr cmpltly rght bt ths. Y cn rmv th vwls, nd mst ppl cn ndrstnd t!

[Wood_workur]

taht is ralely cool. I guses I wlil awalys tpye lkie tihs, if I can get the hnag of it.