Typoglycemia......very interesting!

[loudsue]

This isn't really about "health" or spirituality or astrology, and I wouldn't put it here, except for the awe I have for the capacity of the brain to make things "right" when they're ....NOT!

But read this all the way down:


I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid Aoccdrnig to a rheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer inwaht
oredr the ltteers 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. Amzanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas thought slpeling was ipmorantt!

[tlcandie]

1. OMG!!! I'm laughing so hard it's unbelieveable!!

Thanks, Loudsue!! :hug:

[DemExpat]

2. That is so cool!

:bounce:

DemEx

[Desertrose]

3. so how come my bloody typos drive me nuts?

why cnat i jsut be happy with my luosy tpying??


:hi::hug::loveya: Loudsue

desretrsoe :evilgrin:

[Eloriel]

4. Sure, I can read it

But wow, it gives me a HEADACHE. LOL. Very Interesting.

[loudsue]

5. ROFL!! I had the same reactions as you guys are having.

:crazy: It makes you think like you're ..... well, like your brain is drunk! :beer:

:kick:

[sans qualia]

6. Not Cambridge, Edinburgh.

I was going there at the time. The research was being done at the University of Edinburgh.

... anyway, it is pretty cool. Apparently it doesn't work as well in other languages with more regular phonetic rules, because in English people read for meaning, not sounds... or something. I wasn't actually involved, I just read about it.

[loudsue]

7. LOL! Maybe this is why people think George bush makes sense!

Maybe it's not just a physical reading exercise that works this way, but also a speaking thing. Consider how many people understand

nukular
prostrate (when referring to the prostate)

Those are just two examples of mispronounced words with letters jumbled up or misspelled in pronounciation. I can't think of any others right now, but it always amuses me how people use these words that are a speaking version of a misspelled word, but they find their way into acceptable everyday speech on television.

:kick: