Typoglycemia

[Alice]

I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg.
The phaonmeal pweor of the hmuan mnid Aoccdrnig to rscheearch taem at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltters 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 arppoitely cllaed Typoglycemia -
Amzanig huh? Yaeh and yuo awlyas thought slpeling was ipmorantt.


This was doing the round at school today and though it was very good.
So why are we teaching the kids to read.

[brian c]

I'll have a pint of what your drinking Alice----it looks bl***y good.

[Elaine H]

It's true though. The brain can decipher words, even if they are spelled incorrectly. And it's not just the case for English either. A friend sent me exactly the same thing in German.

[jimmywizz]

what the fu*k, thats class, how the hell does the mind work, mind you i have to ask do people who talk like that in real life (charvers etc) have a problem reading it ?

[brian c]

I'd imagine the average charver would have difficulty saying it let alone reading it.!

[Alice]

Agree with you there Brian. Can any of them read as they do not take any notice of signs that are around.(i.e do not put feet on seats.)

[Infectedmushroom]

So it's not the spelling of the word, but surely you have to make sure all the letters that are in the word are correct? And I wonder if it works with stupidly long non-existent words like Sufeoprxcegpiraioclluaiiidisc

[brian c]

Do you mean---"Supercalufragilisticexpealidosious"

[Jim_in_France]

I remember a big ad campaigne in Australa for "Speed Reading" courses. You were taught to read the pages of a book, almost as fast as you can turn them. I wonder if this phenomena is what they played on. It seems we can scan the pages of a book and miss out many of the words, as the are not needed and we can still understand the contents of the book.

[Infectedmushroom]

My mate Colin knows all about speed reading, he's pretty good at it now. I have tried it but I noticed different styles of writing made it more difficult. For instance reading a stephen king novel was particularly difficult for me, i had to stop and read a few sentences over which kinda defies the whole point of it. But reading newaspaper articles and some factual stuff (without dates) was much easier to read at high speed.

Its a funny thing tho... u dont even read the words in ur head, u just glance the page pretty quickly and sur[rise yourself with how much u can recall when u get to the end of the page!! madness. It gets eaiser with practice too.

[RandomGoth]

speed reading is a waste of a good book lol!
Yours in randomness!
RG

[Elaine H]

Agree with you there, Random. If I am reading for pleasure, then I like to savour every word - but sometimes I have to read boring reports and that's when speed reading comes in very handy LOL. Mind you, I generally have to be careful not to miss anything important, so I normally end up going back and reading the darned things again anyway - properly. [/u][/list]

[Cisco]

I also agree lol.

I can speed read unimportant things when you only need the gist of it,
like the Shields Gazette for whats in it.

Cisco