Weird Word Thing
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d4
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i wdoner if tihs is the rseoan why a lot of spllneig erorrs can silp psas eoditrs and mkae it itno a fnieshid pduroct. if you are rdaenig fsat euognh, yuor barin may not eevn see the mespsillnigs -- you are sitll pcrossenig the crreoct ifonmraoitn in yuor haed, so you msis the mkisteas.
Bran Blackbyrd
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The problem with this is that a lot of people are either misspelling words or using them in the wrong context. Your brain is going to stumble over a word that isn't supposed to be there in the first place.
In order for this to work, that is, in order for you to properly misspell a word, you have to know how to spell it correctly first.
If this phenomenon actually works, your brain might read, "I hvae a cmotpuer", as, "I have a computer", without skipping a beat.
However, it would still stumble over, "I hdae a cpontuer", because, "have", is misspelled and computer simply isn't spelled, "conputer".
In order for this to work, that is, in order for you to properly misspell a word, you have to know how to spell it correctly first.
If this phenomenon actually works, your brain might read, "I hvae a cmotpuer", as, "I have a computer", without skipping a beat.
However, it would still stumble over, "I hdae a cpontuer", because, "have", is misspelled and computer simply isn't spelled, "conputer".
Eternalknight
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That's pretty interesting. i didn't skip a beat on any of them; it wasn't until i was halfway through reading the first post i realized something was wrong.
Yes, weird.
From personal experience (no formal testing), though, I have to point out that an odd awkward exception within a series can still make you stumble. If the entire sentence is slelepd correctly, for example, and one friggin' word is screwed up, it's natural for the brain to linger on it and mess up your flow.
It's also important that your vocabulary be large enough to recognize the words in jumbled order. And that the writer follow the rules of grammar. Otherwise the situation falls apart.
From personal experience (no formal testing), though, I have to point out that an odd awkward exception within a series can still make you stumble. If the entire sentence is slelepd correctly, for example, and one friggin' word is screwed up, it's natural for the brain to linger on it and mess up your flow.
It's also important that your vocabulary be large enough to recognize the words in jumbled order. And that the writer follow the rules of grammar. Otherwise the situation falls apart.
Zappo
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Weird. It works, but only if the scrambled words are perfect anagrams, grammar is followed correctly, and there are no words that are very out of context.
I have done some study on neural networks, and I find this very interesting. It seems that the brain, while examining a word, can cause it to "collapse" on a known state way more efficiently than I thought possible, and that the first and last letters have a much greater weight in the network than all the rest. Naturally, context is involved as well.
I have done some study on neural networks, and I find this very interesting. It seems that the brain, while examining a word, can cause it to "collapse" on a known state way more efficiently than I thought possible, and that the first and last letters have a much greater weight in the network than all the rest. Naturally, context is involved as well.
omnimpotent
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Yellow Sign, are you the guy who keeps filling my inbox with this misspelled gibberish? Knock it off, man.
pmuper itno pulmper indeed...
pmuper itno pulmper indeed...
