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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 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 thought slpeling was ipmorantt.

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Petrty nate 🙂.

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Raegerlsds of smaetinc, sytitncac, or ohgpartirohc pttlrideabiicy, the eye smees to peosrcs ivndiaduil ltretes ... Dsuitnirops in auldt raderes' eye moementvs idacitne taht the viuasl stysem tneds to ctcah the sslgiehtt mipilslnseg.

from Adams, M. J. (1990) Beginning to Read: Thinking and Learning About Print. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, p. 101

Hvae fun 😛

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Originally posted by XanthosNZ
Raegerlsds of smaetinc, sytitncac, or ohgpartirohc pttlrideabiicy, the eye smees to peosrcs ivndiaduil ltretes ... Dsuitnirops in auldt raderes' eye moementvs idacitne taht the viuasl stysem tneds to ctcah the sslgiehtt mipilslnseg.

from Adams, M. J. (1990) Beginning to Read: Thinking and Learning About Print. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, p. 101

Hvae fun 😛
Hmm, couldn't transelate that in the beginning so I just gave up 😛.

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Originally posted by GalaxyShield
Hmm, couldn't transelate that in the beginning so I just gave up 😛.
Basically the main reason it works is because you can pick up enough clues from simple words of say 5 or less letters that the rest can be determined plus most of the words used are shortish.
However that breaks down when you don't have simple words like in the extract I gave.

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Originally posted by KneverKnight
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 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 ...[text shortened]... istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? Yaeh, and I awlyas thought slpeling was ipmorantt.
Vrey cveler! 😀

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Doesn't always work perfectly though. Transpositions of letters further apart in a word make the sense harder to define, and any word transposed into another real word makes it harder still.

http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/personal/matt.davis/Cmabrigde/ gives a background to the idea

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smbdy nce sd t wrks wtht vwls bt t ws by txt nd m strgglng t gt t

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Originally posted by Corsair
smbdy nce sd t wrks wtht vwls bt t ws by txt nd m strgglng t gt t
The vowel bit is correct - languages like Hebrew have vowels that are "optional"

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Originally posted by adramforall
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WELL IF WE ARE ALL TALKING FUNNY I MAY AS WELL ADD THIS TO THE THREAD

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Originally posted by adramforall
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What do you do for a living I wonder - send signals aboard a nuclear submarine? 😉

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Originally posted by Corsair
What do you do for a living I wonder - send signals aboard a nuclear submarine? 😉
That information is classified.

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Originally posted by adramforall
That information is classified.
Good answer! 😉

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