September 10th, 2005
Textually Frustrating
A friend sent me this to me, and no, I haven’t been at the sherry (I usually wait until lunchtime at least) but read the following:
“I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid! Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch taem 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. Such a cdonition is arppoiately cllaed Typoglycemia”
I wonder if Ms. Bookish with her love of textuality has ever heard of this condition…
September 10th, 2005 at 4:20 pm
Nope but it makes sense. Thanks for the info.
September 10th, 2005 at 8:46 pm
I’ve seen that somewhere before, sometime last year. It was semi-debunked; it’s not exactly to do with the first and last letters — the number of letters in the word, and the context of its place in the sentence matters too.
September 12th, 2005 at 3:34 pm
It really is amazing that this is intelligible, because when one looks at it analytically there’s really no reason why we should be able to erad it quickly much less understand it.