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

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

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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

[Publius6961]

Interesting. Once in a while I stumble on a word when written that way.

There are other factors at play.
I read between 50 and 75 books a year, and part of the fun of reading for me is finding the typos and homonym errors in both fiction and non-fiction.

It's like hitting a brick wall.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

Pnig

[Our man in washington]

Yes, but deos it wrok for lgnoer wrods lkie alhrsiibsnamnasiiasttnetedm?

[SoothingDave]

I read between 50 and 75 books a year, and part of the fun of reading for me is finding the typos and homonym errors in both fiction and non-fiction.

It's like hitting a brick wall.

You think hitting a brick wall is "fun"? ;-)

SD

[SoothingDave]

This should be, "...wouthit a porbelm."

Actually, either "read it without problem" or "read it without a problem" is correct.

SD

[Lady Heron]

I am dsylexic and it was just as easy when written correctly. My mind does it to regular words anyway sometimes.

[tallhappy]

Udlaenn slolwaw, Acafirn or Eporouen?

[nuconvert]

Wll, Ive knon abot thes for a wile. Tha brain , once it lerns to reconize objcts (if wrkng prprly) can fil in mising pieces. It wil also fil in mising lims and othr body prts it has lernd to recgnize.
Is an amzng thng.
Thnk abut the ajstmnts yor brain automticly maks, vs that of a camra lns.

[SpinyNorman]

Of course, we could all simply be getting "trained" to compensate for the piss-poor spelling and grammar that pervades the web......

[Pan_Yans Wife]

Excllnt pnt!

(Or is that just text messaging?) :)

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Garet nwes! Now I can crsue on Fere Rpebluic wtih wlid anabodn!

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

What will this mean for ebonics?

I'm sure Sheila Jackson-Lee will believe this Cambridge University study to be a white racist ploy aimed at erradicating the African-American influence on the English language.

[aruanan]

Of course, we could all simply be getting "trained" to compensate for the piss-poor spelling and grammar that pervades the web......

Or the way spelling used to be before the development of the dictionary.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Antidisestablishmentarianism? Sure!

[nuconvert]

lts hpe not.
It wod mes up my grdig systm.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Or the way spelling used to be before the development of the dictionary.

Very true.

[najida]

My head hurts from trying to read all of this.

[Walkin Man]

Hey tihs is gaert!

So lnog sepllchkceer!! LOL!

[dansangel]

Colo! I lveo thsi psot!

[codder too]

Thanks for this serious response. You could teach a young child to "recognize' the words as they are spelled in the original post. Problem is that he would not "know" what the word was IF it was later spelled correctly.

Did the author of the original post understand that?