I actually learned this in a linguistics class, but:
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 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 tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!
If you can raed tihs psas it on!
I wonder if this works with other languages, though. I know I can’t do this with latin, but is that because it isn’t my native language (and I’m not fluent yet) or because morphology is so important?
That is super cool!
Rebekah
Oh, wow. where do I get a copy for my blog, with of course the hat tip to you. This doesn’t surprise me too much. I watched a documentary about deaf people, specifically babies, one time about how they babble with their hands while learning to speak (with sign) just like babies without the hearing impairment babble as they learn to speak. It’s amazing what the mind does with language – developmentally and once we’ve learned it.
i know that modern hebrew doesn’t use vowels and native speakers just know the word because they know the consonants.
Yes I have seen this before and think it is super cool. I wonder if it is true for Greek? It probably is , I will have to test that one.
man. wish i had proof of this in school. i can’t spell my own name on a good day…
Yaeh, taht geos anourd shocol a lot. The big jkoe is that woehver can raed it souhld be hree and wehvoer cna’t raed it ndees to go hmoe!