Weird Word Thing

[seasong]

Regarding consonants... yeah, my thought, too. Although there are other ways to make it harder:

incumernay wulod be sillimary hard, aglotuth it is salticemanly retaled to the far more coommn icetrailly.

Personally, I don't see how y'all can read the mispelled stuff at the same speed at all. I certainly can't. I mean, I can read it, sure, but even the easiest stuff slows me down by at least 20%.

-seasong

 

[Tonguez]

Weird AND cool.

I read very quickly, so I wonder if I always do this. I always thought the reason I read so fast was that I read the words as images ( the same word always appears the same way ), but that theory seems to have just fowln out the wdionw.

My wife reads very slowly in comparison to me - I'll have to show her this and see what her reaction is...

Actually Gobo keep you theory depending on just how fast you do read

really fast readers read whole sentences by getting the image of the sentence and filling in the rest based on context and syntax and just bcaese the wrod is spleled incrroeclty donset chngae the ovrelal shpae...


compare incrroeclty with iconrretlcy and icornretcly and less likely itlrrencoy

 

[tarchon]

I've s--n th*s l!k= 6 t-m-s -n th- p-st 2 d@ys. I r=@lly d*nt g-t Y NE1 w+-ld B s-rp-rs-d by i+, e>=n !f th&r& r=@lly w=r= s^ch a s+udy.

 

[Jemal]

jeaml has seen tihs trhead and diecded taht it is idened vrey istinenertg.

 

[Guilt Puppy]

It took me a second, I had to avoid focusing on it too much (I was aware of the misspelling immediately), but yeah, I can read that just as fast as normal, for the most part.

There are a couple of stop points -- "porlbem" or whatever it was, for instance -- usually in places where the first two letters were consonants, but the second consonant has been displaced. Also, if certain important syllable breaks are too far displaced, it becomes much harder to read.

For instance:

I hvae a fleieng, plarnosley sikanepg, taht an anegmranert of wrods scuh as the lneogr oens in tihs scneente wichh sartt or end wtih dbuole csonntoanns or faterue snicifaignt bakres scuh as the "ng" snuod wlil be mroe dfilucift to diheepcr tahn ohetr wdros. I aslo get the snese taht dpueritsd pxeieirfs can be pleatimborc... But the wohle tnhig slitl pievdros an iriseentnteg iginhst itno hmaun lgticuisins.

It's still readable, but some words are more difficult... "linguistics", for instance, is probably hard to catch (it's a rare word, and the "ng" has been split apart as far as possible.) The phrase "disrupted prefixes" is probably fairly hard to pick out as well, as are other prefixed words like "personally." Then, again, there's "problematic" which is probably difficult to make out, because of that "pr" at the beginning (not to mention "prob" may be a prefix, at least as far as the brain is concerned.)

 

[jaerdaph]

Now try it AND talk like a pirate at the same time!