Good job, with some of the people I talk to on IM

[denny]

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.

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[kissycat1000.livejournal.com]

Waht aer you tyring to say? :P

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Taths spruisrinlgy esay to raed.

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

I was just going to say the same thing, but you got there first. :)

[olithered.livejournal.com]

Indeed!

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

Iot hleps to hvage tohe rgiht nmbuier of ltetrtes, toio

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

It does say 'the letters in a word' (well, it says something that means that). I assumed therefore it meant 'the letters that belong in the word if spelt correctly', although I suppose you could read it otherwise...

[nisaba.livejournal.com]

That makes sense. They've studied people's eye movements when reading, and found that people don't scan a line smoothly; they jump from point to point instead and fill in the gaps. 'Node points' or something they called them. Some people's node points are further away than others - these people tend to read faster, but also have a higher likelihood of mis-reading bits.

That'd be me then...

I find I can read the above, but slighty slower than I would if it was spelt corrently.

[aiwendel.livejournal.com]

mkaes sesne, tuhgoh i argee the rghit nuiobr of lggtirs apd prifrby tpe rsift oens hlkp ipt mcae mgre snuse. ...

:)

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Okay - I can tell what you're saying, but the annoyance that the spelling is causing won't let me read beyond the point of the post. I really hope somebody doesn't use that study as an excuse to further underfund the education system.

[katishna.livejournal.com]

Who needs excuses?

[jikatal.livejournal.com]

goddamn that's freaky :P