Try reading this...

[Beguiled]

my grandma sent us this a couple days ago and i thought i'd share it with you guys! it's pretty cool! here it is...

I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdgnieg The

phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde

Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht 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.

i thought it was pretty funny...and pretty cool that our minds can do that! ^.^ wow...i'm already smarter than i thought!

-angel.

[Kuja's Light]

I read through that no problem, that was awesome! Thanks for sharing that!

[cross blues]

inretnisteg

[Anime Guy]

Huh, didn't know that. Makes sense though.

[SilverKnight]

Didn't this exact same study get brought up a few months ago? I specifically remember reading the same paragraph, freaky misspelled words and all.

[Clayface]

Didn't this exact same study get brought up a few months ago? I specifically remember reading the same paragraph, freaky misspelled words and all.

Yes it did (though I wasn't able to find the thread with a search). And when it did come up before, someone pointed out this article at Snopes.com (http://www.snopes.com/language/apocryph/cambridge.asp ).

[Ed Liu]

Howdy,

I'm still going to be disappointed when ostensibly native speakers of English fail to spell words correctly and use proper grammar in their internet posts.

:D

-- Ed/Ace

[Ben]

The thing is, though, that even though the first and last letters are the same, those are not misspelled words, they're anagrams. All the letters are correct, the order is just wrong. The letters in "Uinervtisy" can be rearranged to correctly spell "University."

When people misspell words they nearly always get letters completely wrong rather than simply rearrange the correct letters. If it was genuinely spelled wrong with only the first and last letters correct it could be indecipherable, i.e. "uhnbersty," and even then I put in a lot of correct ones and made the pronunciation vaguely similar. With shorter words it can be almost impossible. Tell me what I mean to say when I misspell these words with the first and last letters correct: "yoll," "speen," "cald." There's no way you can figure those out. However, those are exactly the sort of mistakes someone having trouble with English is prone to make.

So the fact that this works, while it does show how adept our brains are at rearranging letters into words we already know, doesn't really say anything about how important spelling is, especially for someone still learning the language. In fact, if you hadn't learned how to spell correctly in English before reading those anagrams you'd have no clue what they were trying to say.

[Kury Wagner]

That's cool! Typos bug me, though. It's all my dad's fault, he hates typos too, and so I just grew up with the same peeve. :sweat:

[Otaku Bishop]

It took a while at first, but it bmacee a ltilte claerer atfer taht. Good job.:D

[Fresh V]

Wow, cool. I read that just like I would words in proper order.

[True Noir]

It is pretty cool. I learned about this a while ago. I was pretty amazed myself.

[Lord Dalek]

Wwo.

[Demonic Raven]

This is so incredibly old to me. I first heard of it like a year ago.

[mikestorm]

This is so incredibly old to me. I first heard of it like a year ago.So the minute you heard about it, why didn't you post it here? Huh? HUH? HUH?

Angel posted here; Angel shared the wealth. You just like to hog cool stuff like this to yourself. Well, Mister Man, your monopoly on cool has ended; your little rearrange-the-letters-in-the-middle-and-you-can-still-read-it secret is out. The information has leaked to the masses. We've assimilated it and will now integrate it into our daily lives, and there's nothing you CAN DO ABOUT IT!!!!!!!!!!1


Hmm...boy, looking back, my post seems kind of pointless and just a little bit mean. Wouldn't you agree? ;)

[Jean_Grey]

That was cool. Some of the words took me a while thou.

[zmanjz]

Please avoid resurecting threads.

[Demonic Raven]

So the minute you heard about it, why didn't you post it here? Huh? HUH? HUH?

Angel posted here; Angel shared the wealth. You just like to hog cool stuff like this to yourself. Well, Mister Man, your monopoly on cool has ended; your little rearrange-the-letters-in-the-middle-and-you-can-still-read-it secret is out. The information has leaked to the masses. We've assimilated it and will now integrate it into our daily lives, and there's nothing you CAN DO ABOUT IT!!!!!!!!!!1


Hmm...boy, looking back, my post seems kind of pointless and just a little bit mean. Wouldn't you agree? ;)Cause I've only been a member for a few months! How can I post it without being a member? Post = Null and Void. So HAH! :p

Yes quite pointless. Amusing though. ;)