[Dixielandjazz] Spelling etc

lswain at penrose.com lswain at penrose.com
Mon Sep 15 01:24:13 PDT 2003


> >The phaomnnehil pweor of the hmuan mnid.
> >
> >Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer
> >in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is
> >taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. 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.
> >
> >smiply amzanig huh?
> 
> Not really . . . every elementary school teacher knows this. It
> doesn't take a research linguist at Cambridge University to tell us
> something we already know.
> 
> Furthermore, its also amazing how much degredation in resolution of
> the printed page is possible before the text becomes unreadable.
> 

That should be "degradation", but, based upon what we have learned in 
the first part of the above, what difference does it make?

Larry Swain


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