Word Mind trick

NeoSneth

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This is how i normally type , but cool to know people can still read what i am saying.


The phanmnenel pweor of the hmuan mind:
Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde 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 be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl
mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn
mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
Pterty amzanig huh?
 
U

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Saw that the other day, still as cool as ever. :)

What's interesting though is that if you just take one word and jumble it, it doesn't work. You (generally, I'm sure someone can do it with random words) need context. You have to know the word to begin with too, obviously, or else you don't recognize it and can't read it.
 
Tehcno

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A freind of mine sent that to me yesterday I was going to post that too. Thought it was just insaine.
 
bokmeow

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Yeah, I figured there was something about that, how one could read far faster than they could digest each character of a word. If the machines could read like that, imagine how fast it would have to process information from training.
 
bloodhokuto

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heh, always make me wonder why people (mostly complete cunts) always take great pleasure in pointing out alleged spelling mistakes.

There aint no damn thing as correct english and if you think otherwise

:mad: :mad:

*throws rattle out of pram*
 
DanAdamKOF

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LOL! They had to study this? Heck, LESLIE taught us about this!

But Sruolesiy, taht's ptrety cool taht tehre's an ocfaifil eoaiptnxaln for tihs.

I wonder if you guys can read this:
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TheBigBB

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Um, well, "phenomenal" isn't done right, sir. It took me a second to get that one.
 
seba_boi

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Ttha's cool... <--notice how "cool" stays the same...
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RabbitTroop

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An old teacher of mine at USF, Dewie Rundus, was researching what parts of letters were needed in order to fully recognize it. He found certain letters only needed a small percentage, 5% or less, to be intact in order for your brain to fully create the image, where others needed more. It would be interesting what it would do to combine his research and destroy the letters and then jumble them as well in this manner and see if they could still be read quickly without any lag in comprehension.

The mind is a very powerful thing ;)

-Nick
 
Shapermc

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Shawn said:
Vrey ncie idneed, msut sahre tihs wtih ohetr peolpe!
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Cool, it nice to see that Shawn hangs out in Unreleated.

But yea, this must be something new, 3 people emailed it to me yesterday.
 
Crovax

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Seems like its probably related to the same part of the brain that allows people whose native languages use symbols standing for entire ideas (ie chinese or japanese) to read long lines of them quickly.

i once took a popular culture in japan class, and one topic was character idea recognition vs the recognition of the letters in words (as in the roman alphabet) in the context of how people read Manga. Basically the idea was that it takes longer to read manga written in, say english, than something of equivalent length in japanese. this was because native readers of japanese tend to skim the characters as if they were just part of the picture.

this seems to be an equivalent in english, in which people recognize individual words like pictures (based on the length and the beginning and ending letters). maybe the way we learn the languages aren't so different after all.
 
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