September 13, 2003

scrmable

Jamie Zawinski always manages to dig up some interesting things. His post this afternoon definitely caught my eye when it quoted:

Aoccdrnig to 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 a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe."

Pretty interesting huh? In typical jwz fashion, he also includes a bit of code for generating scrmabled text to test the hypothesis. Apparently this idea/message is floating around in various forms, but it's still pretty cool.

Posted by ac at September 13, 2003 03:03 PM

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