Paul G. Allen wrote:
Here's some spelling for you. How many people can read this?
About 80% will have no problems reading this. Studies have been done :)
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).
It goes to show that we have opitcal conidtioning to recognize a word based on its first and last letters and its overall shape. :)
-Kelsey -- Yes, it was intentional. -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
