Paul G. Allen wrote:
Here's some spelling for you. How many people can read this?
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
Many times during this thread, that phenomenon kept popping up in my
mind. I just didn't want to go to the trouble of creating it by hand,
and I didn't care to do a search for an engine that can convert regular
text to it (especially since I couldn't even think of how to search for
it). I was sure that such an engine probably exists because I remember
eons ago hearing of an engine that would take regular text and convert
it to jive (back in the day when 4 megabytes was considered to be a
*lot* of RAM). I'm sure that there are probably engines for converting
regular text of any kind to every form of speaking imaginable.
--
Ralph
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As I recall, I stumbled several days thereafter.
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