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squeek12
06-23-2005, 08:11 PM
Aoccdrnig to 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 a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

This could be some old chain mail that everyone's seen, but it's new to me. I thought some of you spelling and grammar nazis might enjoy this.
kyro
06-23-2005, 08:13 PM
Naet, I saw tihs aobut teehr yares ago.
Alobar
06-23-2005, 08:13 PM
yeah. I never cared about my spelling or typos before. When I got this chain email, I cared even less.
RunDownHouse
06-23-2005, 08:14 PM
You could go to snopes or google (http://www.fuckinggoogleit.com) and find out you're wrong. Or you could take my word for it.
squeek12
06-23-2005, 08:15 PM
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Naet, I saw tihs aobut teehr yares ago.

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Damn it, i figured this was old, but what the hell.
Alobar
06-23-2005, 08:18 PM
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You could go to snopes or google (http://www.fuckinggoogleit.com) and find out you're wrong. Or you could take my word for it.

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huh, find out you're wrong? Even if it wasnt some college study, it's obviously still true.
istewart
06-23-2005, 08:27 PM
(RunDown can't read)
Bulldog
06-23-2005, 10:57 PM
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teehr

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spamuell
06-23-2005, 11:06 PM
i remmmebr raeding a rbuteall of tihs smowehre wichh siad taht teh onyl raesno taht yuo culod do tihs wsa beacuse yuo cainbet epcexted teh wrod btu if saitrs yuo didnt epxect it tehn tweor yuo dnot konw waht ti maens.

I bet you had trouble with the (mispelled) words "cabinet", "stairs" and "tower" in there (which I inserted randomly) because out of context you wouldn't expect them so you can't read them nearly as easily as words you expect.
JustSomeJackass
06-24-2005, 12:04 AM
my head hurts
RunDownHouse
06-24-2005, 12:59 AM
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(RunDown can't read)

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Well, sort of. I'll concede that much.

From reading this (http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/personal/matt.davis/Cmabrigde/) page, it seems that the OP is marginally correct, although still pretty misleading. While it does seem that the most important aspect of comprehension is the first and last letters, clearly the middle letters play a very significant role. For examples see about 3/4 of the way down the page (find "This is clearly wrong"). Also, the importance of the first and last letters is greatly diminished when we are talking about words in other languages, something that seems to speak against this being some sort of "this is how your brain functions!" issue, which is what the OP implies.

For a shorter summary, read here (http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/personal/matt.davis/Cmabrigde/rawlinson.html).

If my first reply came off as harsh, that's because my email has a filter so I don't have to read this crap. When people post chain emails that are, by definition, [censored] common knowledge, it irks me.