interesting. . . .

[marycatelli]

I cnduo't bvleiee taht I culod aulaclty uesdtannrd waht I was rdnaieg. Unisg the icndeblire pweor of the hmuan mnid, aocdcrnig to rseecrah at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mttaer in waht oderr the lterets in a wrod are, the olny irpoamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rhgit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whoutit a pboerlm. Tihs is bucseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey ltteer by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Aaznmig, huh? Yaeh and I awlyas tghhuot slelinpg was ipmorantt!

anyone know the original?

Comments

[nodrog]

"because," my foot.  Abandoning phonetics produced a generation of programmed illiterates.  I saw this in action at the local newspaper, where I had to assist a Dull Young Thing who was confronted by a customer named (I'll say) Dmitry Yevtushenko - and she was absolutely and literally dumbfounded.  Where you or I could sound it out, she'd learned English words, not letters, and as she'd never learned those words, she had no idea what they were.

Sure, we recognize most of the words in the above - but I had to scan the letters to get the word "research" right off, and names for example would require the same.  (When Edward Gorey coined "Ogdred Weary" everyone got it without difficulty - then.)

[marycatelli]

life is full of complications!

[nodrog]

Where that would come in handy is cryptography - if that's your clear text, good luck with cryptanalysis!  Every word over three letters in length is scrambled.  No pattern-recognition algorithm will make anything of that!

[marycatelli]

That would make life interesting. . .

there is a reason why they seldom use only ciphers to conceal things.