Friday, September 17, 2004

Gibberish

1:21 am

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 toatl 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.

Isn’t it amazing that you can read this when it shouldn’t make any sense? Maybe you’ve heard this before, but Matt Davis of the University of Cambridge is researching how people perceive jumbled letters—if this is even true or if it would work in different types of languages.