Wednesday April 20, 2005
Here is an interesting illustration of the fuzzy pattern-matching
capability of the human mind. The following paragraph contains words
whose letter sequences are randomly re-ordered (except for the first
and last letters). I think you'll find you can read this quite easily
and quickly!
I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg.
The phaonmneal 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 iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be
in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed
it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed
ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? I awlyas tghouht slpeling was not taht ipmorant. :-)
April 20, 2005 01:58 PM EDT
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