Spelling

[Caz]

Who said spelling was important.  I couldn't believe how easy it was to read:-   



If you can raed this, you have a sgtrane mnid, too.
Can you raed this? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can. I cdnuolt blveiee that I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd what I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in what oerdr the ltteres in a word are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is that the frsit and last ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can still raed it whotuit a pboerlm. This is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the word as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? Yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

[port perran]

The human brain is indeed remarkable.
I could read your paragraph perfectly well even though the words are a muddle !

[OwL]

 I thought that some of the local lingo had finally rubbed off on you and you posted in Spanish!

[Lawrence]

pardon 

[longbridge]

Its now 5.00am in Oz and I just got out of bed  reading that just did my head in, we all make an okazional spelling mistake but not qwite as many as that 

[MikeDunn]

Dave,

The thing is - the brain can process the word as long as all the creroct letters are there ...  Putting in dibeterale wrong letters doesn't count 

Mike

[longbridge]

Dave,

The thing is - the brain can process the word as long as all the creroct letters are there ...  Putting in dibeterale wrong letters doesn't count 

Mike

  I agree Mike but I am afraid my brain wont prosess az much az it used to.

Wasn't it Adolph Hitler that wanted to make a universal language that had to be spoken by everyone in the world ?, I may be wrong but his proposed language was to be written exactly as it was spoken, non of this eight, ate, hate stuff 

[Sprintex]

Not only is it possible to read it, but you can read it at the same pace as normal. Weird 

On a similar note, does everyone else find it just as easy to read upside-down things as right way up? When I worked in a factory years ago the bloke opposite used to read the paper during tea break. I generally avoid newspapers, but an article caught my interest and I found I could read it just as quickly from the other side of the table 


Paul

[Jerry Howlett]

At this time in the evening after a few glasses of vino bianco I SPEAK LIKE THAT !

[moogle]

I raed thta no probelm what-so-ever. Upsied donw? I do thta as wlel! Mabye I'm jsut werid...     

[Kipper]

Having done some proof reading, in the past, it is very easy to read a passage like the one above, and let through mistakes (although the typesetters are usually not that bad!). What is more likely to be found quite easily, is the use of "that" instead of "than" and vice versa. Also, the use of "of" instead of "have or 've", such as in "should of" instead of "should have or should've" is another one that glares out from the page. (and on forums, too!)

[edwin_m]

That's before we get to "it's" and "its", or "affect" and "effect". 

My personal worst gripe is "Principal" and "Principle".  The railway gets this one wrong on a routine basis in job titles and business cards, probably because it includes posts such as "Principles Tester"* and "Principal Engineer". 

*someone who tests signalling to ensure it complies with the signalling principles. 

[Oldman]

Smples, I jst cnt typ or spell proply.
However SWMBO keeps the spell book next to the cauldron in the kitchen and I am NOT allowed near it.

[Sprintex]

That's before we get to "it's" and "its",

On a similar note we were browsing the magazines in WHS yesterday and noticed a magazine we hadn't seen before, but for all the wrong reasons . . .


It was called simply, HOBBIE'S 


Paul

[njee20]

Forget where I saw it, but I read another paragraph that effectively debunked that theory - it was virtually impossible to read, despite the first and last letters being the same!

It was also nothing to do with Cambridge University  apparently. Interesting none the less.

Generally on the subject it's "should of"/"could of" that really winds me up, as well as they're/their/there!