A report from the Linux Audio Conference [LWN.net]

A report from the Linux Audio Conference

Posted May 11, 2012 1:01 UTC (Fri) by Zizzle (guest, #67739)
In reply to: A report from the Linux Audio Conference by jrigg
Parent article: A report from the Linux Audio Conference

"Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteers be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe."

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A report from the Linux Audio Conference

Posted May 11, 2012 2:22 UTC (Fri) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link] (1 responses)

Please don't perpetuate that paragraph[1].

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNStNUizxhE

A report from the Linux Audio Conference

Posted May 11, 2012 5:14 UTC (Fri) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

I've experimented with this idea (randomly rearranging letters in words to see what happens) and it actually does work.

You can usually read scrambled text just fine. And it does matter which letters you transpose. Of course, it fails for unusual words and proper names.

But the gist of this paragraph is true - you don't read by scanning text letter-by-letter, you read mostly by recognizing the general forms of words.