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Fri Apr-11-08 04:37 AM
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Can you raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can. |
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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 dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? Yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!
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Fri Apr-11-08 04:39 AM
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1. You're just taunting the spelling police |
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Fri Apr-11-08 03:33 PM
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47. Heretic! THE SPELLING POLEECE SHALL NOT BE MOCKED! |
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BTW, we have declared jihad against those who are about to loose their minds because the spelling standards on the Intertubes are too lose. :-)
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Fri Apr-11-08 04:41 AM
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2. So wehre deos the 55 out of 100 cmoe form? |
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Edited on Fri Apr-11-08 04:42 AM by muriel_volestrangler
The rset of yuor psot syas taht lteter oderr donset meattr, and semes to ipmly taht erveoyne can do it.
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Fri Apr-11-08 04:44 AM
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Why olny ffity-fvie penrcet?
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Fri Apr-11-08 04:53 AM
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5. Porbaly smoe inetrent blulhsit. |
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Fri Apr-11-08 05:38 AM
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7. Ncie senieg ya Bbeelaur |
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Autcllay, taht one was knid of hrad to raed. I wndeor how mcuh tihs has to do wtih the fcat taht so mnay wrods are olny terhe or fuor lttrees.
I ingaime it bmeecos irgceslanniy dcufiilft wtih legnor wdors.
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Sun Apr-13-08 12:12 AM
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73. Fcolaicnniicuhliiipfcilitoian. |
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:D
(Highlight the text below to read it.)
Floccinaucinihilipilification.
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Fri Apr-11-08 01:17 PM
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38. They are too preoccupied with cell phone and texting |
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to at least pay attention.
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Sat Apr-12-08 03:00 PM
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69. 45% are fcnutniolaly iteillatre |
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I made up that stat, but I don't think it's far off.
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Fri Apr-11-08 04:43 AM
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3. Only 55 out of a hundred can read it? I thought everyone could. |
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I'd imagine people without dyslexia would be unable, but I thought most people could.
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Fri Apr-11-08 05:16 AM
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6. I think that an avid reader would have a much easier time of it. |
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Many people only read when they have to. They do not have the instant word recognition skils that people such as we do.
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Fri Apr-11-08 05:45 AM
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8. Looks like I typed your post |
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Fri Apr-11-08 05:45 AM
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9. The mind fills in much of what the eye perceives |
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Fri Apr-11-08 05:53 AM
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10. Ho Sith, oot cuhm nidm ecerxersi frist thgni ni teh ormngin. Miet ot og cakb ot slpee. |
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Edited on Fri Apr-11-08 05:54 AM by OmmmSweetOmmm
dan Bleubare! :hi:
(what's weird is it's remarkably easy to type this)
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Fri Apr-11-08 10:10 AM
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18. Not to nitpick, here, but... |
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first and last letters have to be in the right order. Just saying.. :)
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Fri Apr-11-08 11:01 AM
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19. Ahhh! The mispelsnilg pciole stkries!!!! |
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Fri Apr-11-08 01:14 PM
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Edited on Sun Apr-13-08 12:15 AM by kgfnally
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Fri Apr-11-08 11:34 AM
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25. odd but I was still able to read and understand it... |
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Fri Apr-11-08 11:37 PM
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58. As was I, but it was decidedly more difficult than the OP... |
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If you eliminate the rule that the first and last letters have to be in order then it becomes nothing more than a string of scrambled words. I don't think those could be scanned as easily. That's the whole point.
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Fri Apr-11-08 01:21 PM
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39. Perhaps this is why I had trouble with that post, but not with the OP |
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Sat Apr-12-08 11:40 PM
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72. ton fi uoy tog a dab esac fo aixelsyd |
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Fri Apr-11-08 05:54 AM
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11. It's not that much worse than the average e-mail these days. |
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Fri Apr-11-08 06:35 AM
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12. Read it at the same pace as I read normal text. |
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Go figure. (I do a lot of crosswords and word jumbles and cryptoquotes).
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Fri Apr-11-08 07:52 PM
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I thought I was the only geek around who was addicted to those!
I find them pretty easy to solve, as well as crossword puzzles. But for some reason, I can't do anagrams at all.
And forget Sudokku. The minute I see numbers I think of math and taht's the end of taht.
BTW, this is like LOL Cats!
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Sat Apr-12-08 06:21 AM
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61. Soduku!!! AAAAaaaaaghhh! |
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Run, Forrest, run!
(I had to look up the spelling of the word, that's how lame I am, I am.)
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Fri Apr-11-08 09:25 AM
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13. Didn't have any problem reading it. Looks like much of the writing I see here at the |
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Fri Apr-11-08 09:58 AM
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14. As my hands become more arthritic I type more and more like taht. |
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Fri Apr-11-08 10:00 AM
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15. Makes sense. Think of how you learn to read - after you sound it out you don't need to |
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keep doing it - you just recognize the *appearance* of the word.
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Fri Apr-11-08 10:01 AM
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16. Wow - it takes a litle more time but not much |
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Sad to say - some words looks like my typing before correction.
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Fri Apr-11-08 10:03 AM
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I read it like normal. How cool!
We read by context and intuition a lot of times. Just try one of those exercises where you read a passage and then answer how many times the letter "f" appears. You always get it wrong because the eye doesn't pick up every little letter, just the overall word and sentence.
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Fri Apr-11-08 11:03 AM
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20. omg -- i had NO PROBLEM reading this. great post. |
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Fri Apr-11-08 11:22 AM
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I get dizzy trying to deliberately misspell a word. A typo is one thing, but it's next to impossible for me to take words I've used all my life and scramble them like that.
:)
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Fri Apr-11-08 01:23 PM
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40. But were you able to read the OP? |
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I, too, would have difficulty deliberately type like that, but did not have problems reading it. And I am not a "visual" person.
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yes, but as I was reading it, comprehension lagged. I had to stop and unscramble each word instead of reading it through. Perhaps there is an opposite to dyslexia? Sort of the failure to understand anything that isn't spelled right? ;)
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Fri Apr-11-08 11:27 AM
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22. Clever, not. "Reading" the above took more effort than a correctly-spelled example would have. |
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Oh, and note: The ONLY way we can read the OP is BECAUSE we all know the CORRECT spellings, to "get" the transpositions.
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Fri Apr-11-08 11:29 AM
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reading this than I do text where a writer tries to convey an accent phonetically. It must be that first and last letter thing.
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Fri Apr-11-08 11:32 AM
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24. Oddly though, I can't understand it when moron* tries to read it in one of his speaches. nt |
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Fri Apr-11-08 06:46 PM
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54. Errraaa... SPEECHES!!! |
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Sat Apr-12-08 10:10 AM
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62. thank you spelling officer. |
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Fri Apr-11-08 11:36 AM
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26. Yeah, but it's still "lose," not "loose," dammit!! |
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Fri Apr-11-08 11:56 AM
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27. since spellcheck is my friend...no problem |
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I am a visual speller- I memorize what a word looks like, but I can't spell it without writing on paper.
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Fri Apr-11-08 12:03 PM
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28. I thought this was about DU's fine print Subject line. |
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Edited on Fri Apr-11-08 12:04 PM by L. Coyote
Those with glasses edit 55 out of 100 subject lines :rofl:
On edit. Subject line typo corrected.
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Fri Apr-11-08 12:05 PM
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29. Can you read this? Only 55 people out of 100 can, |
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Edited on Fri Apr-11-08 12:06 PM by PerfectSage
I couldn't beleive that I could actually understand what I was reading. The phenomenal power of the human mind, according to a research at Cambridge University, it doesn't matter in what order the letters in a word are, the only important thing is that the first and last letter be in the right place. The rest can be a total mess and you can still read it without a problem. This is because the human mind does not read every letter by itself, but the word as a whole. Amazing huh? Yeah and I was always spelling was tghuhot??? tghuhat???important.
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Fri Apr-11-08 12:06 PM
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30. The scrambling slows my reading down only slightly |
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I am exceptionally adept at saying words backwards, doing anagrams, palindromes, etc.
I am also a very good proofreader.
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Fri Apr-11-08 12:07 PM
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31. I can raed uspide dwon too |
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Laenred taht tcirk in taehecr shoocl.
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Fri Apr-11-08 12:44 PM
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after you have read any high school or college students papers!
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Fri Apr-11-08 12:51 PM
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33. Wow, 55 of 100 authors send me manuscripts! |
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I'd sure like to see more submissions from those 45 who bother to spell check before sending their book to me.
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Fri Apr-11-08 01:03 PM
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34. The letters aren't scrambled randomly -- they are close |
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The further the letters get from their correct position the more difficult it becomes.
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Fri Apr-11-08 01:11 PM
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Then again, I can also read (though not post) upside down.
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Fri Apr-11-08 02:05 PM
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41. Oh not tihs one aigan |
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So fkcunig tired of seeing this
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Fri Apr-11-08 07:46 PM
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56. Pradon em lal ot ehll. :) |
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Edited on Fri Apr-11-08 07:49 PM by Bluebear
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Fri Apr-11-08 02:46 PM
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43. i raed it jsut fnie, eevn usdpie-dwon and in a mrroir... |
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Fri Apr-11-08 03:09 PM
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45. That's pretty neat. n/t |
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Fri Apr-11-08 03:26 PM
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46. Spelling is important |
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That you CAN spell (and read) means that you can read this: Yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! Don't take that forwarded email (or wherever you got it) as "proof" that spelling is not important.
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Fri Apr-11-08 03:40 PM
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48. Good thing, 'cause I'm dslyxiec n/t |
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Fri Apr-11-08 03:45 PM
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Bsuh sckus Bsuh sckus Bsuh sckus Bsuh sckus :crazy:
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Fri Apr-11-08 03:56 PM
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50. I gotta admit that "whotuit" threw me. The rest of the words I got okay. |
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Atthay isyay uckingfy oolcay, udeday.
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Fri Apr-11-08 03:59 PM
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51. I love reading like that |
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It's so cool - I even deliberately read faster than normal - no glitches!
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Fri Apr-11-08 04:02 PM
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...everyone I know who's seen it could read it. That's like almost a hundred percent, or something.
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Fri Apr-11-08 04:03 PM
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53. Haven't you been told that GD is an English-Only forum? |
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Edited on Fri Apr-11-08 04:07 PM by Ilsa
Actually, I read it pretty easily.
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Fri Apr-11-08 06:47 PM
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55. Fuck it, I'm not correcting my typos anymore |
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Fri Apr-11-08 11:46 PM
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60. yes, without a problem |
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Sat Apr-12-08 11:58 AM
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63. Try scrambling the word order, too |
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English is like Chinese - it encodes A LOT of the meaning in the word order, whereas other languages like the Slavic ones encode in the individual words instead.
So if you scramble the words in that sentence, very few if any people would be able to put it back together or even have a clue as to what the sentence is about. Actually, for simpler, low-context sentences, scrambling the word order means they can't be reliably reconstructed by anyone. How can you figure out whether "the ball" "Jane" "hit" was originally "the ball hit Jane" or "Jane hit the ball"?
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Sat Apr-12-08 02:14 PM
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64. Wow! I think I just read that faster than if it were spelled correctly! |
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What does that mean?:rofl:
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Sat Apr-12-08 02:21 PM
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65. Yes. It was no different than reading the correct spelling. |
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Sat Apr-12-08 02:24 PM
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66. OMG! I read it right along with no problem. Amazing |
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Sat Apr-12-08 02:36 PM
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67. I had no problem reading it...btu tehn I ma a fcuknig gneuis. nt |
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Sat Apr-12-08 09:23 PM
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70. So here's a guy writing out a sign to solicit funds for a charity event... |
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He writes:
"Please help Daily Sex"
The guy reading it says to him "Robert, I think you better get someone else to spell Dyslexia."
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Sat Apr-12-08 11:21 PM
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Yeah! It really does work!
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Sun Apr-13-08 12:15 AM
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75. Tihs is the psot taht wno't die |
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Wlil smoenoe pelsae put it out of it's miresey?
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