The Amazing Human Mind

Slpelling?

[Ozark]

I cdnouolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdgnieg The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid Aodccrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dnsoe't mttaer in waht oredr the ltterrs in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghti pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tishs is bcuseae the hmuan mnid deos not raed ervery lteter by istlef, but the wrod as awlohe. Azmanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuogt slpeling was ipmorantt!

Since spelling is not my strong point a appreciated this

Ozark

[lawman]

This topic has come up a couple of times already. If digitalghost puts one together for you, you might not have the same confidence level. :)

[Timotheos]

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[digitalghost]

Found it for ya Lawman. It was kind of fun digging back through all that Foo.

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[lawman]

Thanks DG; I bookmarked it this time. :)

[beaneboper]

Thanks for bringing this up. That is so cool.

I've read a few books on this subject eons ago when I was a young whipper-snapper in college.

Oliver Sacks, An Anthropologist on Mars
Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct

Are there any other sources on this subject area that might be interesting to read?

Many thanks.

[ronin]

All sentences may not be so easy to read.

For example:

I scpuset taht tihs prashe is shmwoaet mroe cpemolx to dchpeeir.

Well... perhaps only a little.

But why?

Because the diphthongs "ph" in "phrase", "wh" in "somewhat" and "ph" in "decipher" are single sounds in English... when the constituent letters are separated and then put in close proximity to other letters which suggest alternative diphthongs, it takes that bit longer to piece the original word back together.