The following was on a puzzle calendar and I recognized it immediately... So if the letters are in the right order, even if the vowels are missing, the meaning seems to be apparent.
Fr scr nd svn yrs g r frfthrs brght frth t ths ntn... Clay ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tamara P. Duvall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "chat Arachne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 10:11 PM Subject: [lace-chat] :) Fwd: Language is cool > I *may* have seen this one before (sorry, C <g>); it seems to ring a > bell. But the bell is very faint, and the joke is very funny, so... My > only reservation: it's all very well, and probably true (afterall, most > of us commit typos every once in a while, and the messages are *still* > understood), but only if one's command of English is pretty good. If > one hangs on to a dictionary by the skin of one's teeth... 35 yrs ago, > there's *no way* I'd have made any sense of it; Chaucer and Spenser > were pretty much impenetrable, and their spelling was often closer to > the present day English than the following: > > > From: C.H. > > > Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer > in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is > taht the 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. > > Naet, huh? It's wierd how our midns wrok > > ----- > Tamara P Duvall > Lexington, Virginia, USA > Formerly of Warsaw, Poland > http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd/ > > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: > unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
