Orthographic reform is a loser, but I think the phenomenon represented by the following passage is worthy of further development. <http://typographi.com/000687.php>
By this point, most of you have seen a paragraph similar to the following that has spread like wildfire over the Internet:
Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt 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 a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by itslef but the wrod as a wlohe.
At 1:04 PM -0400 4/19/05, John Francis wrote:
Alan P. Hayes mused:
A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling
by Mark Twain
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You beat me to it!
-- Alan P. Hayes Meaning and Form: Writing, Editing and Document Design Pittsfield, Massachusetts
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