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I got an interesting email today......

Discussion in 'Off Topic [BG]' started by Petebass, Sep 16, 2003.


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  1. Sep 16, 2003 #1
    Petebass

    Petebass

    Dec 22, 2002
    QLD Australia
    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".
     
  5. Sep 16, 2003 #2
    Osama_Spears

    Osama_Spears

    Jan 7, 2003
    Baltimore,MD
    Woah....taths cool:)
     
  10. Sep 16, 2003 #3
    Wrong Robot

    Wrong Robot Guest

    Apr 8, 2002
    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.
     
  14. Sep 16, 2003 #4
    ldiezman

    ldiezman

    Jul 11, 2001
    Nashville
    Thats pretty interesting... I am surprised at how easy it was to read
     
  18. Sep 16, 2003 #5
    christopper

    christopper

    Jun 23, 2003
    Northern Virginia
    thats weird:)
     
  22. Sep 16, 2003 #6
    Wrong Robot

    Wrong Robot Guest

    Apr 8, 2002
    ten bkcus* to wohveer mkeas a trsnaltaor so taht I dno't need to witre all teshe out by hnad :p









    *"ten bkcus" is the name of the prize awarded which is nothing
     
  26. Sep 16, 2003 #7
    DEFELDUS

    DEFELDUS

    Jun 1, 2003
    University of South Carolina
    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 :)
     
  31. Sep 16, 2003 #8
    Wrong Robot

    Wrong Robot Guest

    Apr 8, 2002

    fixed it for you :p
     
  35. Sep 16, 2003 #9
    kcdbass

    kcdbass

    Feb 27, 2002
    New Jersey
    Former Sales/Web, Sadowsky Guitars
    read this outloud:

    Johnny is a
    a smart boy.

    Read it again. Say it again. Repeat until correct.:p
     
  39. Sep 16, 2003 #10
    Wrong Robot

    Wrong Robot Guest

    Apr 8, 2002

    :D I like that.
     
  43. Sep 16, 2003 #11
    Petebass

    Petebass

    Dec 22, 2002
    QLD Australia
    Have a lok at my original post, specifically the second sentence. Did anyone notice I typed the word "and" twice?
     
  47. Sep 16, 2003 #12
    Tyler Hole

    Tyler Hole

    Dec 14, 2002
    San Luis Obispo, California
    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 :p Good one man.
     
  51. Sep 17, 2003 #13
    stuie86

    stuie86

    May 9, 2003
    mckinney, tx
    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
     
  55. Sep 17, 2003 #14
    merlin

    merlin

    Apr 15, 2000
    Adelaide, South Australia
    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
     
  59. Sep 17, 2003 #15
    wulf

    wulf

    Apr 11, 2002
    Oxford, UK
    I saw the story on Slashdot yesterday - I think there was a link to a perl script taht wlil do the job....

    Wulf
     
  64. Sep 17, 2003 #16
    Bruce Lindfield

    Bruce Lindfield Unprofessional TalkBass Contributor Gold Supporting Member

    Dec 13, 1999
    Brighton, England, UK, Europe
    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? }
     
  68. Sep 17, 2003 #17
    yoshi

    yoshi

    Jul 12, 2002
    England, London
    ..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.
     
  72. Sep 17, 2003 #18
    christoph h.

    christoph h.

    Mar 26, 2001
    Germany
    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.
     
  76. Sep 17, 2003 #19
    Josh Ryan

    Josh Ryan - that dog won't hunt, Monsignor. Supporting Member

    Mar 24, 2001
    Taht is vrey itntrenseig.
     
  80. Sep 17, 2003 #20
    P. Aaron

    P. Aaron Supporting Member

    Sep 16, 2002
    Below Ground, Detroit area
    I GOT AN INT3R3STNG 3MALE 2DAY...11111111!11!!!111!!1!!1!1!11111!11!1!
    SORY IF THIS HAS B3N POSTED BFORE1!!!111 OMG *** I HAEV A BIT OF A PSYCHOLOGY HOBY AND AND FR3AEKD A FAW TR3RS OUT ONA DAY WIT AN AXMPLE OF HOW UR MINDS AXPECTANCY S3T WORKS1!!1!!1 LOL

    I GOT THIS ON TEH AMALE 2DAY1!111 LOL ITS ANOTHAR PARF3CT EXMPLE....11!!1111!!!!1!!!1!!11!11!11!!!1!111!!!11!111111111!!11!1!1!!11 OMG ***

    AOCDRNIG 2 A RSCHEARCH AT AN ELNGSH UIENRVTISY IT D3OSNT
    MTA3R IN WAHT OREDR TEH LTERS IN A WROD AER TEH OLNY IPRMO3TNT
    TIHNG IS TAHT FRIST AND LSAT LTER IS AT DA RGHIT PCLAE1!111!1! OMG *** DA RS3T
    CAN B A 2ATL MSES AND U CAN SITL RA3D IT WOUTHIT PORBLM!11!1!! OMG LOL TIHS
    IS BCUSAA3 WE DO NOT RA3D ERVEY LTETER BY IT SLEF BUT TEH WROD AS A O!!1! LOL
     
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