[raymondlin]

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 total 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. Amzanig huh?

 

[usc goose]

damn, i can't believe how fast i read that. that's pretty freaking cool.

edit: now i noticed it's no problem when i read it fast but when i try and read it more slowly it gets all jumbled. amazing stuff.

 

[Duncan]

looks like you went to my spelling class Ray

Seriously though, I - like Goose, and presumably everyone else was able to read that with no problem

(the only words I stumbled on was the ones with the spelling... erm.. letter errors.. 'reaseachh' instead of research, and 'importent' instead of important)

 

[usc goose]

i wonder if you can do that in german. (uber-long words pop up with them i'm told)

 

[raymondlin]

I dont think you can do it with Chinese or Korean or Japanses, as those you actually read each word.

 

[Bonkura]

That was pretty cool, the ways of the human brain are mysterious

 

[JMedeiros]

wow..and that was with just one sip of my morning coffee..very
neat.
John

 

[Mystic]

Raymond,

I've been working continuously for the last 26 hrs. Thanks for the relief.

 

[jpelg]

Wow. That was cool.

 

[lan]

super! I want to print that on a tshirt but it may not fit.

 

[KR...]

Pretty cool

 

[MD1032]

Oh cool! I just read that whole thing without a problem!! COOL

 

[fractus2]

Pretty neat.

 

[dhwilkin]

It is a very cool trick.

 

[lini]

Quote:

Originally posted by usc goose i wonder if you can do that in german. (uber-long words pop up with them i'm told)

Haven't tried that, yet - but I can confirm, that it works for me in English. Astounding!

And yes, we seem to have some affinity to create uberlong words over here - though it has been somewhat reduced since the last orthography reform, at least for verbs. In addition, many of the more recent uberlong words are just created by coupling - in English, coupling doesn't seem so common (eg.: 55-Ohm-Treiber / 55 Ohm driver).

Greetings from Munich!

Manfred / lini