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Jul. 4th, 2006 10:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
taratemimaYou may have seen this. Being that I am well aware of the ability for half-true information to get around and somewhat aware of psycholinguistics, this meme amused. I also began to wonder.
i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I wuas 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.
Thhe rset can be a taotl mses and yhou can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huuamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs rpsoet it.
ONLY REPOST IF YOU COULD READ THE ABOVE. Please update the number at the header to include yourself.
It sounded plausible, I know that there was some psycholinguistics research done in the US and the UK. I had to find out though.
A Cambridge University student breaks down true and false bits of the meme
Hey, it's on Snopes.
Languagehat includes links on that theme
I hope I can summarize this correctly:
Yes, you can read and understand jumbled up words in your native language. It's more involved than that. It depends on the features of the language (Some words in English aren't spelled the way they sound), the different words that could fit the jumbled word, and short common words ('teh') are better understood. Readers take longer to look at a jumbled word, but most do understand it.
Also, one guy pointed out that reading it quick makes it easier to understand than slow.
i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I wuas 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.
Thhe rset can be a taotl mses and yhou can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huuamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs rpsoet it.
ONLY REPOST IF YOU COULD READ THE ABOVE. Please update the number at the header to include yourself.
It sounded plausible, I know that there was some psycholinguistics research done in the US and the UK. I had to find out though.
A Cambridge University student breaks down true and false bits of the meme
Hey, it's on Snopes.
Languagehat includes links on that theme
I hope I can summarize this correctly:
Yes, you can read and understand jumbled up words in your native language. It's more involved than that. It depends on the features of the language (Some words in English aren't spelled the way they sound), the different words that could fit the jumbled word, and short common words ('teh') are better understood. Readers take longer to look at a jumbled word, but most do understand it.
Also, one guy pointed out that reading it quick makes it easier to understand than slow.
