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icon6.gif Good News About the Power of the Human Mind...  [message #21619] Mon, 19 July 2004 07:28 Go to next message
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iH!!

The pweor of the hmuan mnid.

Aoccdrnig to rscheearch codnutced at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are tpyed, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit oedrer. The rset can be a total 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.


Amzanig, huh ? ::-) ::-)



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icon14.gif wow... i just read the paragraph without no problem.. freaky  [message #21623 is a reply to message #21619] Mon, 19 July 2004 08:00 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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very nice.. i need to copy this.



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But David...  [message #21626 is a reply to message #21619] Mon, 19 July 2004 08:07 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Timmy proved this to us years ago.

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Re: But David...  [message #21627 is a reply to message #21626] Mon, 19 July 2004 08:21 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I claim to be the originator of text message speak, then!



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Spelling Test.....  [message #21633 is a reply to message #21619] Mon, 19 July 2004 10:05 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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David, a question.....  [message #21639 is a reply to message #21619] Mon, 19 July 2004 11:12 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Does this apply to all languages?

Was there any information as to whether that other languages were tested?



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icon7.gif Re: Good News About the Power of the Human Mind...  [message #21670 is a reply to message #21619] Tue, 20 July 2004 02:21 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Wow, that was fun, do it again!!!

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icon5.gif David attempts an answer...  [message #21673 is a reply to message #21639] Tue, 20 July 2004 12:07 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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The article didn't mention any other languages than English. But I suspect that it works the same in any language that uses our alphabetical system of letters and spaces.

I doubt greatly that languages like Japanese or Chinese would work the same...Chinese people have to learn something like 4,000 characters to be considered literate, and that's not even half of them.

It would be interesting to see if it works in Thai, since the letters dictate strictly what the pronounciation is, and there are 56 of them...



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Re: David attempts an answer...  [message #21676 is a reply to message #21673] Tue, 20 July 2004 15:02 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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No i wouldnt think it would work in Japonese or Chinese.

I wonder if it would work in say.... Turkish or Russian?



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Re: Good News About the Power of the Human Mind...  [message #21799 is a reply to message #21619] Thu, 29 July 2004 06:22 Go to previous message
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Talk about the law of unintended consequences -- the human mind's capacity to understand the misspellings is ALSO what lets spam get through
filters. Bummer! d



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