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The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid.

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Old Oct 18, 2004 | 08:35 AM
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I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdgnieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid.

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer inwaht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas thought slpeling was ipmorantt.

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Old Oct 18, 2004 | 11:27 AM
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Wow taht's very intrsetnig.
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Old Oct 18, 2004 | 11:38 AM
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Without getting real technical and nerdy, this is sort of how CDs and wireless links work. It's about transmitting redundant information.. So a CD player can read the data correctly, even if the data isn't entirely correct. When you make a sentence like you did, your brain already knows something about the words you are making, like what possible letter cimbinations make real words, and what words you would expect to see together and likely grammer combinations. A CD does something very similar.
Sorry that was sort of geeky, but when I was researching the wireless/CD comm stuff, it made the analogy of misspelled words.
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Old Oct 18, 2004 | 12:04 PM
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rpoest..
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Old Oct 18, 2004 | 12:21 PM
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LOL
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Old Oct 18, 2004 | 05:07 PM
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Originally Posted by ninethreeeleven,Oct 18 2004, 12:04 PM
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Old Oct 18, 2004 | 10:45 PM
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Originally Posted by iamjosh,Oct 19 2004, 12:35 AM
I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdgnieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid.
The funny thing is, you can still pick up spelling mistakes as well !!

redging?
rdgeing?
regding?

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Old Oct 19, 2004 | 08:29 AM
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sihT!! Czray!
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Old Oct 19, 2004 | 08:09 PM
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