Sorry if this has been posted before. I have a bit of a psychology hobby and and freaked a few TR'ers out one day with an example of how your mind's expectancy set works. I got this on the email today. It's another perfect example......... "Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe".
awesome! my brother showed me this the other day but he didn't give me the link...I really wanted to show TB, but I couldn't find it. glad it surfaced again.
ten bkcus* to wohveer mkeas a trsnaltaor so taht I dno't need to witre all teshe out by hnad *"ten bkcus" is the name of the prize awarded which is nothing
man, i love stuff like this! this reminds me of the thing like this: try to say the COLOR of the word at first glance, not the word. red green blue black not easy eh? cool stuff
Have a lok at my original post, specifically the second sentence. Did anyone notice I typed the word "and" twice?
LOL! I was wondering what the hell was wrong with it at first...i was thinking to myself "what the hell is wrong with it?" and was just about to post asking when I realized it Good one man.
to test this for my self i sent aims to 3 of my freinds like that none of then noticed until i said somthing..... for one of my ginny pigs i talked like that till they found out..... didnt happen i had to tell them five mins in fun times
The only way i could understand that is due to the long time i have been here on TB. Sheesh ive read some shockers... Damien
I saw the story on Slashdot yesterday - I think there was a link to a perl script taht wlil do the job.... Wulf
That's all very well for short common words that we can infer from their place in simple sentences. But more complex words or ideas can be made nonsensical by doing this. So what about a word like Rogue - that gets mis-spelled as Rouge - which means something quite different!! Or longer words like : Who are Skvcsthaooih or Seckusoactn? { Shostakovich or Stockhausen? }
..in all fairness, though, you dont expect them words all that much; "...[it works on] how your mind's expectancy set works". Its like going to a traffic light and hearing an airhorn, your expantcy would melt down. I bet that word/mind thing works only in computer type though and not at all in handwriting - theres one for the beardies whoever made it.
strangely i did get shostakovich immediately, just like the text above, but stockhausen was too hard. it probably depends on the familiarity with the words, as i've not only used the name "shostakovich" more often than "stockhausen" but also not too long ago.
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