I tihnk it's petrty colse

[jackofallgeeks]

Aoccdrnig to a 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 porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

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[thismortalquill.livejournal.com]

Indeed. You are muchly correct.

[ex-orin917.livejournal.com]

*laughs* I like that.

I have to add that I've just spent about four hours reading an ebook and I read over that paragraph with complete indifference. In fact I only actually noticed the abnormality after the first sentence...

[meg-and.livejournal.com]

Ddue! Taths aweomse! I hda no tobrule radineg taht at all! It atucally took me sveeral scendos bfeore I eevn raelzied tehy wree all wkcay! Mybae we souhld tpye meagesss lkie tihs form now on! ^_~


~M&ge

[naughtjennifer.livejournal.com]

I disagree. The human mind is amazing at finding patterns and making sense of gibberish, however. I mean, someone used hex to make pi create a circle. You see the word , your mind tries to makes sense of it by anagramming it into possible words. It then takes the msot fitting anagram, and that'w what you decipher the word as. You still, however, read the word through its letters. If this were not the case, an 8-year old who is familair with all the words in the paragraph would bea ble to decipher the meaning. As my little sister proved earlier today, this is not the case.

So, in short, the anagram deciphering is a skill the brain learns after becoming acquainted with words for some time.