spelling dont matter

doggie750

:DI'm one of the 55. Are You?

Don't even think about using spell check!!!!!!!!

fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too.

Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can. i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg.

The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in what
oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in th e rgh it pclae.
The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed
ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!
if you can raed tihs forwrad it.


ONLY FORWARD IF YOU CAN READ THIS

Kex

That is pretty amazing stuff! It hardly even slows you down when written that way. Any link to the research article?

TNRabbit

yep. Is that 55 out of 100 worldwide? Or English readers? I'm betting the number is higher if you only include literate folks....

NJPOLKER

I use spell check 99% of the time I post here. My spelling sucks as does my typing skills.
The other thing is I don't want the guys around here to think I'm a dumb ****.

Thats pretty funny what you posted by the way. I could swear you are drinking.

kawizx9r

Kex wrote: »

That is pretty amazing stuff! It hardly even slows you down when written that way. Any link to the research article?

That is the research article

gtu2004

i got tihs from a feirnd a cpluoe yraes ago. pettry aamznig.

suprafantx

English is my third language but I dotno hvae ayn rpoblme iaedngr yuor tosp.

ryanjoachim

I saw this years ago, and it is pretty funny how your mind automatically recognizes the words.

thuffman03

I can read all of these also. I saw this a few years ago. It is messed up how the mind works sometimes.

BlueFox

It's readable, but irritating. just as it is when i am, or u r, to lazy to use upper-case letters, or complete a word. wow i typed shud instead of should and saved 2 characters.

vc69

I think TNRabbit hit it though.

Literacy is a prerequisite. Either way, I write in english. That means there is a definite order in which the letters are supposed to appear. We have dictionaries to aid in the process of deciphering that order. And spell checkers for those of us that suck at it.

Think of it this way, If I didn't know the language, and tried to decipher the above post with aid of an english dictionary, I would be completely unsuccessful. Communication would fail miserably.

I think the fact that the brain can reconstruct the word even with the letters out of order is a fascinating point though.

Charlie Rose is doing a series on the brain right now. Exactly this sort of thing is subject of a round table discussion from many different points of view. Good stuff.

http://www.charlierose.com/view/collection/10702

potee

I have seen other things in E-mails like this. I never have a hard time understanding them, But even I try to spell things close to correct.

Fireman32

I guess im smart as I can read it without a problem

Rodeo0530

I read it without a problem and was amazed that I seemed to be reading just as quickly as I normally would. Hard to believe that that 55% is the number though.

cstmar01

Rodeo0530 wrote: »

I read it without a problem and was amazed that I seemed to be reading just as quickly as I normally would. Hard to believe that that 55% is the number though.

I honestly thought it was higher, and I have never heard the number 55% thrown out there before. We had a teacher in high school give this to us so that was like what 6 years ago or so for me. I think almost everyone in the room could read it except a few, but it was greater than 55%. It is cool how the brain works with this. Now try it upside down spelled like that, that should make things fun.

vc69

The brain doesn't seem to do so well with inversion or upside down.

Jstas

It's not about reading letters and order. It's about recognizing patterns. When you read, you're brain processes the visual pattern of the word long before it processes any letter. If you look at the words, the patterns are pretty close to what they would normally be. Therefore, your brain error corrects in a sense and fills in the missing links.

Jstas

vc69 wrote: »

The brain doesn't seem to do so well with inversion or upside down.

I must be a freak then because I can read backwards and upside down. However, reverse printing like the word Ambulance on the front of Ambulances is written so that it looks correct in your rearview mirror. Looking at that straight on is difficult to read. Anything else is a cinch.

vc69

I was referring to some facial recognition studies. Perhaps written language is processed in a different way. I struggle with upside down/backwards for some reason.

bobman1235

A lot more is conveyed with how you write than just the basic meaning. Sure this shows that for basic reading comprehension spelling is not all that important (although being able to parse the misspellings probably requires that you can read and associate those words WITH the correct spellings in your mind), but if you have constant spelling and grammar mistakes in real life, no matter how much you want to deny it, it says something about you to the people reading. A lot of the folks here, who are probably very smart in real life but who write like morons (spelling, grammar, punctuation, pick one), I have a hard time taking seriously.

cstmar01

vc69 wrote: »

I was referring to some facial recognition studies. Perhaps written language is processed in a different way. I struggle with upside down/backwards for some reason.

See I can do that, but honestly I'm horrible at basic spelling. I failed it constantly when I was younger, yet I had a very high reading comprehension when I was younger. I don't get it.

Sherardp

doggie750 wrote: »

:DI'm one of the 55. Are You?

Don't even think about using spell check!!!!!!!!

fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too.

Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can. i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg.

The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in what
oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in th e rgh it pclae.
The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed
ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!
if you can raed tihs forwrad it.


ONLY FORWARD IF YOU CAN READ THIS

Wow, that is pretty good. I read right through it, no problems. Cool read bro.

vc69

bobman1235 wrote: »

A lot more is conveyed with how you write than just the basic meaning. Sure this shows that for basic reading comprehension spelling is not all that important (although being able to parse the misspellings probably requires that you can read and associate those words WITH the correct spellings in your mind), but if you have constant spelling and grammar mistakes in real life, no matter how much you want to deny it, it says something about you to the people reading. A lot of the folks here, who are probably very smart in real life but who write like morons (spelling, grammar, punctuation, pick one), I have a hard time taking seriously.

I am totally with you on this one. I struggle with spelling too, that's why I use a spell check. But some of the gibberish that passes for a post on this (and every other forum) is telling and causes me to have the same reaction. Dismissal. And it's unfortunate for me, as I would very much like to understand what they are posting.