I cndou’t bvleiee taht I culod aulaclty raed nad uesdtannrd waht I wsa rdnaieg. Unisg the iicndeblore pweor of the hmuan mnid, aocdcrnig to rseecrah at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno’t mttaer in waht oderr the lterets in a wrod aer wittern, the olny irpoamtnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rhgit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can slitl raed it whoutit a pboerlm. Tihs is bucseae the hmuan mnid deos not raed ervey ltteer by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Aaznmig, huh? Yaeh, and I awlyas tghhuot splelnig was ipmorantt! See if yuor fdreins can raed tihs too.
Thought I'd share this with all those people who get a bit precious about English spelling and grammar.
Probably works with all languages that use an alphabet. But it definitely works best at a native level of language proficiency. I stumbled three times which wouldn't happen to me if it were in German.
This has to do with the physiology of reading. Contrary to what you may think, trained readers (like most of us are) don't read letters, but absorb entire words or phrases at once, as if they were images. And as soon as the ‘image’ looks a bit like what we expect to read, the brain gives a positive signal of recognition.
That's why it is so easy to miss a typo even after reading a text 10 times.
Does this work in other languages, or just English?
it does… its your brain running autofill and autocorrect. It also helps you understand words written from root words in other languages. Ex: Pharmacy, Farmacia, Parmasya, Pharmacie etc
I cndou’t bvleiee taht I culod aulaclty raed nad uesdtannrd waht I wsa rdnaieg. Unisg the iicndeblore pweor of the hmuan mnid, aocdcrnig to rseecrah at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno’t mttaer in waht oderr the lterets in a wrod aer wittern, the olny irpoamtnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rhgit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can slitl raed it whoutit a pboerlm. Tihs is bucseae the hmuan mnid deos not raed ervey ltteer by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Aaznmig, huh? Yaeh, and I awlyas tghhuot splelnig was ipmorantt! See if yuor fdreins can raed tihs too.
Thought I'd share this with all those people who get a bit precious about English spelling and grammar.
someone should do this vs flip phone texting to test what is faster to read
Just tried to read phone text and got very confused with a number of abbreviations. LOL (should that b laugh out loud or lots of love ?)
LOL is laugh out loud. Not lots of love. I hear about people not knowing what lol means and use it after texting to someone that somebody died 😱. Lol is laughing 🙂
LOL is laugh out loud. Not lots of love. I hear about people not knowing what lol means and use it after texting to someone that somebody died 😱. Lol is laughing 🙂
Me too, and that is so funny. Its another trick our brains play on us.
I make many spelling and granma errors for 3 reasons.
1. Deliberate (Like “granma” above).
2. Un co ordinated 2 finger typing and typing in the dark/dull room, also being one key firther tohjy than usual
3. Forgetting how to spell words, or thinking of words with similar spellings, but being a different meaning such as fought for thought.
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