[Ltg] Try to read this. I'm sure you can... (even if you are not English native speaker)

[Andrew.Lampert@csiro.au]

For anyone interested, there's been a bunch of coverage and discussion
of this phenomena over the years. 

For example:

http://www.bisso.com/ujg_archives/000224.html
http://www.languagehat.com/archives/000840.php
http://science.slashdot.org/science/03/09/28/1328220.shtml?tid=14 
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/ctfonts/WordRecognition.aspx

Cheers,
Andrew

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ltg-bounces at ics.mq.edu.au 
> [mailto:ltg-bounces at ics.mq.edu.au] On Behalf Of Pawel Mazur
> Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 3:10 PM
> To: ltg at ics.mq.edu.au
> Subject: [Ltg] Try to read this. I'm sure you can... (even if 
> you are not English native speaker)
> 
> 
> fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too
> 
> Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 out of 100 plepoe can.
> 
> 
> 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 dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the 
> ltteres in a 
> wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat 
> ltteer be 
> in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can 
> sitll raed 
> it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not 
> raed ervey 
> lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I 
> awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs 
> forwrad it.
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