Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.42 responses total.
I understood the text of the post, but I ended up reading it slower than I normally do. Couldn't comprehend the title, till after I read the post.
Yeah, I think the text is a bit contrived. Like uinervtisy has the "t" in about the right place. utsverniiy is much harder to read. Shorter words however do seem to wrok almost any way you type them, and there are enough shorter words in most texts so that it becomes easier to guess longer words from context. That's what makes the title hard to read - not enough context.
Riigd cofidicatoin of sleplnig ruels is a rletaivley reecnt deevolmenpt in the hitsroy of the Ensilgh lungagae aynawy.
That I did not know. I thought rules were always rigid, but spelling changed slowly as the oral language chanfed.
This item, agora 226 (Summer 2003) has been linked to language 123.
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I have a lex program that filters for this. It was in 7, but cannot just ide it (like censor in YAPP?).
I shared this with my son, who observed you can also drop all the vowels, even after the first operation: ccdrng t rschrch t n lngsh nrvts, t dn't mttr n wht rdr th lttrs in wrd r, th ln prmtnt thng s tht frst nd lst lttr s t th rght pcl. Th rst cn b ttl mss nd y cn stll rd it wtht prblm. Ths s bcs w d nt rd rv lttr b tslf bt th wrd s wlh.
The dropped vowels don't work as well as the approach in #0. I've noticed that you can drop vowels in frequently used words, or words that have few vowels and the meaning won't be lost. In less frequently used words that have too many vowels, this approach is harder to comprehend
N dbt bt t.
My totally unscientific opinion is that it's the *shape* of a word that gets recognized, perhaps with recognizing the first letter. I don't believe the last letter is that important. After a while the combinations of letters in a certain shape become a pattern to be recognized, not a molecular formula to be decomposed.
Re #4: Nope, spelling actually varied a lot until the first English dictionaries were published.
Yet another testimony to the stubborness of language.
(Drift, but concerning Slelnlipg: my 4 year old granddaughter, who likes to be read to but has shown no apparent interest in the words in the books or their spelling, and her parents have had some concern about her not yet reading, asked from her car seat in the back of the car, while being driven to school, "why are there two o's in zoo?".)
Tmbn hy q decr q ls rsltds d l nvstgcn n s plcn ncsrmnt . n lng cm spnl. Mlecazr tood lsa ltreas ed als plbraas epsalnosa prbloablmeeent csaua prblmeas snigfianctes pro al cpreonsnio dle ttxeo. (Hint, the above text is written in Spanish. Perhaps munkey or another native spanish speaker would like to tell us if this works in Castilian?)
Really? Spanish! It's perfectly parsable in English too!
The ability to spout words like "parsable" does not one a linguist make. Fortunately.
I bet you don't know what it says in English. Fortunately. (Or you'd be embarassed you wrote it.)
Bzzzt! Wrong, but thankyou for playing.
(wow. the first words that occurred to me while trying to read the first paragraph of resp:16 were Spanish words, but I'd managed to convince myself that it was supposed to be in English, based on the rest of the item. bravo!) (data point: I haven't had any problem reading any of the entries with transposed letters, but I found that losing vowels slowed my reading considerably.)
Re 8: The cmoanmd to hdie a rocpsnee in Psapcion is "ergapxtue." Or if you use Fanltrotk, you can jsut type "hdie." I'm tiryng to keep wrod sehaps arppemixloaty ccerort in tihs rocpsnee.
What's that command in Picospan again? Somehow, I find it more difficult reading this response than #0
Word scrambler from Greg Cronau:
#include <stdio.h>
main(){int i,j,l;char c,*b,*d,*e,f[2<<9],g[2<<9];srandom(time(0));while(b
=fgets(f,2<<9,stdin)){do{for(d=g,e=b;isalpha(*d++=*b++););if((l=((d-g)-1))>
3){for(c=g[1],i=2;(i<(l-1))&&(g[i]==c);i++);if(i<(l-1)){while(strncmp(e,g,l
)==0)for(i=1;i<(l-1);c=g[i],g[i]=g[j=(random()%(l-2))+1],g[j]=c,i++);strncpy
(e,g,l);}}}while(*(b+=*--b?1:0));fputs(f,stdout);}}
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skipping the vowels is okay ..but you beter keep the first vowel in words which begin with vowels ..like arnd , annyms , antnyms .( beter = better )
I'm surprised to note at this point that no one has mentioned that the primary element of readability in longer words is the syllable. Multisyllabic words with the first letter in correct position and the rest scrambled are far easier to parse if the letters which compse each syllable are grouped in the correct order of syllables, and scrambled within that smaller range. This is hinted at by the comments on word FORM in #2 and #12.
'Nuff said.
I am skacitepl of Eirc's atoissern taht sbalylle oderr pevtoresrain is carnetl to rildaibeaty.
Scrambling without regard to syllables, in my experience since first reading about this, has significantly increased the time required to parse longer words correctly, despite context.
The syllable scrambling aids in larger words - 3 syllables or more. For two syllable words it doesn't matter.
I tried reading #0 out loud and think it is considerably less intelligible that way. There must be something to the "modular" word recognition hypothesis. The mental processing of reading seems quite apart from the mental processing of speech (not surprisingly).
Visual (and even tactile, as in the case of Braille) processing is a much lower level, and therefore faster, brain function than speech processing. This is predicated on the earlier development of the sensory functions.
I think it is also that one quickly rescans fixed visual inputs, which one cannot do with auditory input.
Jdeigert (Jim) who is dyslexic tends to just look at the first and last letter of a word and guess the middle. Often the guessed word turns into something edible. Fresh eggs turned into fish eggs, for instance.
O Mother.
#0 is pretty darn eadabkle .. out loud, it sukxx .. the disemvoweled words are harder.
..you're one to tlak.
rihgt ....
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Does anyone here speak Japanese?
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