Well, it interested me, anyway....

[venta]

Just received this in a bit of junk email:

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer
in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is
taht the frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a
toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we
do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.
Ceehiro

Anyone got any thoughts?

(No, I don't really imagine it's the result of serious research anywhere)

Comments

[nisaba.livejournal.com]

As I commented in dennyd's LJ on the same topic, this kinda makes sense. I know they've studied people's eye movements when reading, and found that people don't scan a line smoothly; they jump from point to point instead and fill in the gaps. 'Node points' or something they called them. The node points tend to pick up on just the most important parts of the written language, such as major punctuation like full stops, and of course the beginnings and end of words.