And you thought you needed to spell correctly

I love that
I'd also bet that at least 95% of the people who traffic this site can understand it, but we'll see.

There's an analysis of it here. It's actually been contrived to make it quite easy to read.

First, the requirement that the first and last letters stay the same (violated by "cna yuo" in the header) means words with one, two, or three letters aren't altered at all. There are 108 words total--49 of them have three or fewer letters. Four-letter words have only one possible change--transposition of the second and third letters--which is easy to decode. That accounts for another 20 words--bringing the count of easy words to 69, nearly two-thirds of the total. Given that much, some of the longer words are predictable from context.

Second, none of the scrambled words create a correct spelling of a different word, such as from/form or salt/slat.

Third, many of the changes in the longer words are transpositions of pairs of adjacent letters, which is easier to decode than when a letter is moved several spaces away from its correct position.

Beat me to it, Giraffe lady

Also, another fun, somewhat different, example of figuring out words in a sentence:

This sentence contains several nonsklarkish English flutzpahs, but the overall fluggandisp can be glorked from context.

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Originally Douglas Hofstadter, I believe.

Curse you people and your ruining perfectly good pseudo-science with logic!

Thanks for the link, Fennel.

I thought there was something fishy about this when it was going around a few years ago, because I'm dyslexic, and I can read it. Dyslexics, unlike most people, don't code whole words instead of individual letters. Every time I read a word, I'm essentially sounding it out in my head (this makes for very slow reading, but I choose to see it as making good books last longer ). So the fact that I had only a little bit of trouble reading it told me that it had to be designed to be crazy-easy.

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Results 1 - 10 of about 147,000 for phaonmneal

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Can you imagine that same misspelling being used that many times?

It was one of the most popularly copied blogposts and forwarded email messages of its time, along with the "You know the world is crazy when the world's best rapper is white, the world's best golfer is black,..." thing documented here:
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/chrisrock.asp

sad thing is, up until 2 years ago, my writing (and typing) actually looked like that, cause I have dyslexia.

I have no problem reading it, plus I can read mirror image words and upsidedown books as well.

I can't do numbers at all though: do not ask me the time, if I say 1:15 it's 1:45 or maybe 4:15 or 5:45. I can count in my head, but give me actual numbers to count, I'm lost, and I can not do any form of math at all.

This is not novel forum fodder. My eyes! My eyes! Port to OP.

Old nwes, siltl fnuny...

juneafternoon said:

Petrey dran ispemirvse, eh?

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See, now if the claim was true, then this should have been as easy to read as the whole paragraph was. It wasn't. I struggled with dran and came up with drain, then maybe damn (now after typing it I realized it's darn) and I couldn't get ispemirvse at all except in context.

Shadow_Ferret said:

See, now if the claim was true, then this should have been as easy to read as the whole paragraph was. It wasn't. I struggled with dran and came up with drain, then maybe damn (now after typing it I realized it's darn) and I couldn't get ispemirvse at all except in context.

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The OP says only 55% can do it. I thought it would have been higher, but anyhoo. I could read it fine.

That's 55% of non-writers! AW folks rank MUCH higher!

Thanking you.

Shadow_Ferret said:

See, now if the claim was true, then this should have been as easy to read as the whole paragraph was. It wasn't. I struggled with dran and came up with drain, then maybe damn (now after typing it I realized it's darn) and I couldn't get ispemirvse at all except in context.

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Weird, I had no trouble at all reading that sentence, and English's not even my maternal language!

I got line edits yesterday on book # 3. Imagine my horror when, on page 3, I misspelled my main character's name. Damn.