Ordering of letters don't matter

[S&T Kawaii Love]

Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, olny taht the frist and lsat ltteres are at the rghit pcleas. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by ilstef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

[Raven18940]

Seen it bfroee, but slitl cool.

[Bubblemonkey]

Wnoder if aynnoe thguhot of wntiirg an etnrie nvoel lkie taht. Tnihk it wluod slel?

[S&T Kawaii Love]

lol I dno't tinhk it wulod slel vrey good. But taht Elingsh rscheearch is ineetrnitsg thugoh. It sowhs how poerwlful our binars are ^_^

[Mai Tokiha]

Woha... tihs is rlaley wried, I'm albe to raed tihs sfutf wotihut plrbomes :D

[Xebi]

I've raed taht aegs ago, sorliusey I tinhk 2 yraes ago.
but rcnetley my fiernd tired to fool me wtih tihs ltitle ticrk

Count the F's in the following sentence, how many are there?

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HAH, there is no text~!

just kidding
There are six, only the human mind easily forgets the F's of the "OF" by reading them as an "V"

[Serene852]

tihs is petrty aamznig. Jsut sohws waht mroe hmunas need to konw aobut tmhesleevs! :D

xbei, terhes tehre F's, rihgt? :)

[chief977]

taths kdina cool. I nvaer ntioecd taht utnil now.
Asowme! :D

[Dis]

This is old...

[Avychan]

Actually, it's not as simple as the first and last letters. Example, someone wrote "binars" and I read that as, well, binary; instead of the "brains" it was meant to be. It's actually word shape that we read, which is why it'd bad to type in all caps, because word shape disappears and then we do have to start reading every letter to read the word.

[Bubblemonkey]

This is old...
Yaeh, we konw....taht dsone't maen we cna't hvae a ltilte fun wtih it thgouh, deos it?

[Fanin]

??? :confused: ???
spelling check anyone?
:D

[daeyna]

This page (http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/personal/matt.davis/Cmabrigde/) has a ton of infoarmtion about the phenoemonn, with attempts to reproduce it in other laugnages, including Spansih, French, German, Swedish, Italian, and Russian. It dsoen't say whether the effect works for them or not, though.

Other parts of the page discuss the subtleties in what sorts of rerraangements work and what don't; there are multiple effcets, including what Avychan mentions.

Also, it confirms something I suspected about Xebi's thing (which totally fooled me)--the issue isn't the "ov" sound, it's the fact that "of" is a "functional" word and we tend to ignore them when thinking consciously about sentences (or maybe it's both):


However, as a reader you might not notice this since many of the words that remain intact are function words, which readers don't tend to notice when reading. For instance, when people are asked to detect individual letters in a sentence, they are more likely to miss letters in function words.(Item #3 under 'the rset can be a toatl mses'.)

[Bubblemonkey]

This page (http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/personal/matt.davis/Cmabrigde/) has a ton of infoarmtion about the phenoemonn, with attempts to reproduce it in other laugnages, including Spansih, French, German, Swedish, Italian, and Russian. It dsoen't say whether the effect works for them or not, though.

Other parts of the page discuss the subtleties in what sorts of rerraangements work and what don't; there are multiple effcets, including what Avychan mentions.

Also, it confirms something I suspected about Xebi's thing (which totally fooled me)--the issue isn't the "ov" sound, it's the fact that "of" is a "functional" word and we tend to ignore them when thinking consciously about sentences (or maybe it's both):

(Item #3 under 'the rset can be a toatl mses'.)
Bah. Tehre you go tyrnig to riun the fun by tyrnig to tcaeh us smothenig. :p

[KidSteel]

Kenw teh ltetre-raragneemnt tihnyg, but Xbei's extt is pertyt maazngi. :p Adn ti eenv weokrd desipte me pekeing ta het sltiouno befrehoand. :D

Bah. Tehre you go tyrnig to riun the fun by tyrnig to tcaeh us smothenig. :pHehe, hits syas lal :D:D:

http://www.hongfire.com/forum/showpost.php?p=382294&postcount=5

[Xebi]

Kenw teh ltetre-raragneemnt tihnyg, but Xbei's extt is pertyt maazngi. :p Adn ti eenv weokrd desipte me pekeing ta het sltiouno befrehoand. :D
Hehe, hits syas lal :D:D:

http://www.hongfire.com/forum/showpost.php?p=382294&postcount=5
>.< with your words, your still supposed to keep the first and the last letter in the right place, the letters between can be dissordered, but the first and the last letter should keep place.
I couldn't follow a word you said >.<

[KidSteel]

Whoops, lol. <.<;

Kenw the ltetre-aragrneemnt tihngy, but Xbei's txet is pterty aimanzg. :p And it eevn weokrd desipte me pekeing at the sltiouon befrehoand. :D
Bah. Tehre you go tyrnig to riun the fun by tyrnig to tcaeh us smothenig. :pHehe, tihs syas all :D:D:

http://www.hongfire.com/forum/showpost.php?p=382294&postcount=5
But after looking at the first text again, I have to say that large parts of it abide with first-last-letter rule, so you should have understood it at least partly. :p

[Xebi]

Whoops, lol. <.<;

But after looking at the first text again, I have to say that large parts of it abide with first-last-letter rule, so you should have understood it at least partly. :p
thats called "Art of Exagurating"
heh, well there were just a few words I couldn't make up wich made it hard to understand >.<

[tristanelf]

While I had seen both the rearranging trick and the "f" trick before in psychology and linguistics classes, it's still very interesting to me. There was one more that we learned along with those, but I've totally forgotten at this point. Maybe I'll remember so I can post it here.

That's a nice page that Daeyna posted, I wish I had it when I was taking those classes; it summarizes all the stuff we went over. :p