FSACNIATNIG (Peploe can raed bteter tahn you mhgit tinhk tehy can)

National Review Online ^ | September 16, 2003 | Jonah Goldberg

[Timesink]

FSACNIATNIG [Jonah Goldberg]

From a reader:

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 total 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.

Posted at 05:55 PM

[Timesink]

geart msic pnig!

[goldstategop]

Uh oh... I think FR's fonts are screwed up BIG TIME *FR FONT SIREN ALERT ******

[austinTparty]

pnig

[tallhappy]

know whey!

Or

konw wehy.

gnu weigh

gnu wgieh

[Hawkeye's Girl]

Sewet!

Tihs msut be hrdaer for dsylxecis thuogh.

[The Westerner]

Tanhks for pstingo tish infamritve awrdical.

[Mo1]

Dang .. and I thought my typing skills were bad ..*L*

[AntiGuv]

Deos tihs wrok wtih pig ltian?

[Pro-Bush]

Ecxellent Psot!

[jennyp]

Tanhks for pstingo tish infamritve awrdical.

You mislsepled "inofamrvite" and "atrlice".

[jennyp]

Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe

Uo-hh, tihs menas "wolhe wrod" rediang mihgt siltl hvae a baiss in fcat!

[piasa]

gnu weigh

fyi

Birthweight of Brindled Gnu: 22 kg (48 lbs.).

Or should that be "brithwiehgt of Birndeld ngu?"

[piasa]

Deos tihs wrok wtih pig ltian?

Not quite. It looks too much like you are aksnig if it wroks with pig Italian.

[piasa]

Tihs msut be hrdaer for dsylxecis thuogh.

Maybe, maybe not. What if when they read it it looks like it should?

[Johnbalaya]

neat! neevr toghut aoubt it lkie taht bofre...sohuld hvae reocgznied "Gestalt" thorey at wrok

[Invasionofthebodysnatchers]

I've hraed taht wehn cofntroed by ltitle gery ailnes , taht
pig liatn wroks too cofnsue tehm, I'll hvae to emxnaie tihs Cmabgrie Sutdy fruhetr. Tihs cluod cmoe in hnday!

[Samwise]

BMUP

[Green Knight]

Pnig

[aruanan]

The rset can be a total 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.

This should be, "...wouthit a porbelm." Though the last statement is true, some folks have made the error in reading instruction to try to instruct by whole word only. An alphabetic system has the advantage over ideographic systems in that the reader can encounter a word in print he has never seen before, but which he may have heard, and use a phonetic approach to get a clue as to what the word is. One is almost entirely lost with ideograms in a similar situation. And while reading takes place at far too great a rate to be the result of mentally sounding out the letters to identify the word, being able to do this very slowly gives a beginning reader a degree of positive feedback and a sense of accomplishment that is entirely lacking in trying to learn to read ideograms.