This is strange.

janiejoey

janiejoey

Cathlete
Good morning everybody,

This is weird, but interesting! How did you do?

fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too.

Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.

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 sitl l 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!

Janie

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The idea is to die young as late as possible.
 
This is exactly why I cannot edit to save my life! When I read through something it usually "looks" right. :)
 
Finally something I can read!:7 I am slightly dsylexic so that made sense to me! Now if they would only do that with numbers, I would have gotten A's in school.:p
 
I've seen stuff like this before, and I always get a kick out of it every time. That's EXACTLY why editing is so hard. I do it for a living, and I have to do it verrrrrry slowly. Thank heavens for Spell Check. :7
 
Yep, read it no problem. I can also read something that is upside down. I skill I picked up from years of teaching English as a foreign language one on one. My students always looked at me like I was from another planet when I would read entire pages out loud with the book upside down so they could follow along with me.

Gabrielle

Now if only I could learn left from right maybe step routines wouldn't be so hard for me to learn. I also never can remember which is the outside or the inside of the step.
 
That is so cool; I couldn't believe I was reading it through...too cool. I'm going to have to share this with friends!
 
I read it too. and pretty quickly too!

Here's something that I found interesting when my older DS was only about 18 months. He learned things really early. He knew the alphabet and 2 or 3 words for EACH letter of the alphabet, all before he turned 2. We used to laugh because we could show him a letter upside down, backwards, whatever...and he knew it in a flash. (smart, like his mom :) )

Gayle
 
>This is weird, but interesting! How did you do?

I didn't have any problem with it, which surprised me (I could read it as fast as I read normal text!

(Though that doesn't mean spelling isn't important, LOL!)
 
>I've seen stuff like this before, and I always get a kick out
>of it every time. That's EXACTLY why editing is so hard.

Good point!
And probably a reason why students have a hard type proofreading their papers.
 
I just love word games so it was easy for me also.

I wonder if all the emails we have these days where people are typing so fast and make so many errors has helped our brains put letter in the correct order when our eyes are reading them as they are typed?

Remember the thread where all the words were typed backwards? That took me quite a while longer than just the word scramble above did.

LOL Tneah !
 
>I've seen stuff like this before, and I always get a kick out
>of it every time. That's EXACTLY why editing is so hard. I do
>it for a living, and I have to do it verrrrrry slowly. Thank
>heavens for Spell Check. :7

I recently had to write a 500 word essay to win a dream kitchen rehab contest and thought 'I'll never be able to get it down to 500 words.' I don't know how many words were in my first draft but It dragged on for four pages and had to be boiled down to one. I thought my 4-pager was perfect when I pulled out a magnifying glass to read the fine print of the contest rules. That's when I found out about the limit. I have visions of every essay longer than a page being automatically eliminated because most people probably won't read the fine print (I hope). Amazingly, I was able to very quickly trim out most of the fat and get it down to about 600 words. That's when the real work began. Everyone I knew had read both essays and nearly everyone said my final product struck the right balance of humor and "Please pick me" without losing too much detail. But I REALLY hate editing (gee, can you tell from my posts???). Editing is so hard, at least when it's your own work. I worked on that essay for a solid month and boiled it down to EXACTLY 499 words. I know everyone and their dog has entered the contest and that I shouldn't count on anything, but I really will be crushed if I don't win. One co-worker, after reading it, said "Great. I feel like taking up a collection so you can get your kitchen." I'm actually a really good writer when I try. But as an artist I think painting and drawing are much easier. You have spells where you can't come up with anything but writing (editing) is HARD WORK!
 
I love word games and weird mind tricks. I think I have read this before, but it is so interesting how our minds can skim over "minor" difficulties like out of order words.
 
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