Typoglycemia

[PanzerJaeger]

(An email forward i recieved from a friend.)

Don't ignore this because it looks weird. Believe it or not you can read it.


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 inwaht 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.

(I had heard of this but didnt know it was so easy.. why is there so much focus on spelling at school? )

[Kaiser of Arabia]

....whoa....

[Lonewarrior]

old, but it still amases me every dam time

[Big_John]

this is a bit of an internet hoax (as far as anyone can tell, this has nothing to do with any research done at cambridge). the interesting thing is that people never stop to think about the limited nature of this lexical phenomenon (i think these things are called memes). it seems to work well in english (although, context plays a large role i think), but what about other languages with similar scripts, like french? what about other scripts? what about hebrew.. don't they leave vowels out in the script? how would memes work then? what about cyrillic? what about agglutinative languages like turkish where words can get crazy long? and obvioulsy this has no relevance to logographic languages like chinese.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

The language thing isn't what's important I think...just how the mind takes in information. People always say it shows spelling doesn't matter but it is harder to read than regular text and spelling errors always jump out and distract you.

Another interesting fact is that when someone reads outloud, their eyes are 8-10 words ahead of the word they are saying.

[Mablung]

Heard and seen before, guess it isn't all that amazing but yeah, it does look kind of weird to be able to decipher such utter gibberish without actual effort

[Sigurd]

Let’s see…

I dtete fegat seduters sksehetkrkiesoept som; inieesåfmsoskrfmnrashkjol,brveksie og iefntriesdie tslerur til ijiehnmfrnskeoasoskrt, mittoaltk og kenoolrtlr for å bjpemeke dssie tnselrue og å ftsroå og drktuisee hedenoevdle i rnvetleae ittdeaseefjksnranoirssoshankrmr.

Nope, I can't make it out...

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

I dette faget studeres sikkerhetskonsept som; informasjonssikkerhetsmål, beskrive og identifisere trusler til informasjonssikkerhet, mottiltak og kontroller for å bekjempe disse truslene og å forstå og diskutere hoveddelene i relevante informasjonssikkerhetsstandarder.

[doc_bean]

Does this also work with written text though ?
Maybe we're all just trained because of all the misspellings on the internet.

[Cheetah]

Aki ezt a sövgezt el tdjua ovnslai az tud myugaarl. Aki nem az tnulaojn meg!

Eneygbkt pdieg mködűik a dloog, nem nleyv fggüő.

Can you read it? I bet you dont. You see: it does not work.

[Marshal Murat]

I dno't ralely unstadernd the lsat two psot.
Tehy weher in a diferfent srcipt.

Eidt:Boy do I feel sutpid
Hehe I geuss I misesd a few psot.