Paul G. Allen wrote: > Here's some spelling for you. How many people can read this?
I don't know how many, but I can. As soon as I realized the words were mispelled for some reason my brain just adjusted and I could read it. May be because I read it before. > You maen lkie in the avobe two snetcenes werhe yuor non-santadrd > sleplnig ifniltced whilpsah on my eeys. > > I tihnk taht msot eevn moedrtaley ltiretae poelpe hvae cretian > exepctations not olny of how wrods are spleled, but aslo of how tehy > *look*. Mcuh of the way we rcogeinze wrods is bsaed on the word's > sahpe > and szie. Chnagnig not olny a word's sleplnig, but aslo its szie and > sahpe is lkie rnadmoly plcanig real loonikg, but nnofnutcoianl cras in > the mliddle of the frweeay. > > By the tmie the raeder sees the wrod, he's arlaedy run oevr and psat > it, > and sitll wnodrenig "Waht the hlel was taht!" wehn, dsironeited, he > has > to sotp, bcak up, and tkae a sceond look. > > I don't see eiffcieicny in scuh sleplnig, ecxpet in creatin cnotxets. > I > see isntaed eihter lzaniess or igornnace or btoh. > > Hweover, I can put up wtih yuor chnaegs a lot esaeir tahn the cmopelte > and utter lzay igornnace of tohse asasultnig me wtih a cmpolete lcak > [of] captiailaztoin (yes _ervey_ snetnece shuold strat wtih a captial > lteter). and a cmpolete igornnace of pnuctautoin (it's not a cnotset > to > see how mnay wrods you can fit itno ecah snetnece). > > PGA > -- > Paul G. Allen BSIT/SE > Owner/Sr. Engineer > Random Logic Consulting > www.randomlogic.com > > > -- > [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list > -- Neil Schneider pacneil_at_linuxgeek_dot_net http://www.paccomp.com Key fingerprint = 67F0 E493 FCC0 0A8C 769B 8209 32D7 1DB1 8460 C47D Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge. -- Mark Twain -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
