Interesting research

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Published Sunday, September 14, 2003 10:14 AM by RoyOsherove
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Sunday, September 14, 2003 7:17 AM by x

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wow, i could read that as fast as a normal sentence :)
Sunday, September 14, 2003 8:13 AM by Yosi Taguri

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amazing !!!!
Sunday, September 14, 2003 10:48 AM by Scott Galloway

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Pretty remarkable...maybe my bad spelling isn't so much of a problem as I've always thought :-)
Sunday, September 14, 2003 10:50 AM by TrackBack

# This is very interesting - maybe bad speling doesn't matter!

Sunday, September 14, 2003 10:59 AM by Duane Mohney

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Wow, that is remarkable. I didn't even slow down to read that.
Sunday, September 14, 2003 2:32 PM by Dumky

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This thing must be a social engineered virus, it gets forwarded by email like crazy and blogged too ;-)
Sunday, September 14, 2003 5:37 PM by Martin Liversage

# Let's have some fun

Wll, hw abt wtht an wvls excpt if th frst lttr is a wvl? Lk arbc nd ivrt.

Let's try this again...

Wlel, how aoubt wthiout any wvoles ecxpet if the frist lteter is a woevl? Lkie arbaic and ivirt.

Was that better?
Sunday, September 14, 2003 7:26 PM by Alper

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Eevn i am not ntavie Elingsh sepaikng preosn i culod raed!

but it is no easy to write words by changing order :-)
Sunday, September 14, 2003 7:40 PM by TrackBack

# tihs is azamnig!

Sunday, September 14, 2003 8:13 PM by SBC

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hmm... doesn't work in Scrabble though...
;-)

(New England Region College Scrabble Champion '83 '84)
Monday, September 15, 2003 1:22 AM by Rajesh

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Very interesting .. I could read with same pace.
Monday, September 15, 2003 1:23 AM by Paul Gielens

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Welcome to a technique used in speed reading.
Monday, September 15, 2003 6:38 AM by kalpesh soni

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thismiz wasmoz a rismeal fusmun
Monday, September 15, 2003 9:25 AM by Uwe Thomas

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This could be a new simple kind of cryptography. The text is readable by every person but not by machines. E.G. Google would'nt index these texts approprately and spam filters couldn't filter appropriately.
Interesting
Monday, September 15, 2003 9:47 AM by TrackBack

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Monday, September 15, 2003 11:39 AM by Mike

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Great news for dyslexics!
Monday, September 15, 2003 6:06 PM by Billy

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cool.
'though I think its a scam that 1, 2, and 3-letter words by default get to remain the same. :-p
Monday, September 15, 2003 9:08 PM by TrackBack

# Word letter order

Monday, September 15, 2003 9:18 PM by Frank Boumphrey

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It even works if you only read the top half of the letters (if the font is serifed)

This also semi works
a*******g to a r********h at an E*****h u********y, it d****'t m****r in w**t o***r the l****rs in a w**d are, the o**y i*******t t***g is t**t f***t and l**t l****r is at the r***t p***e.
Monday, September 15, 2003 11:23 PM by Jesse Ezell

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Which makes something like this:

https://www.fcukfragrance.com/retail2002/main.htm

a very interestingly named product...
Tuesday, September 16, 2003 1:43 AM by Ryan Cromwell

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Thatis by far the coolest thing I've seen in 2003. And it's almost the end of the year. You've easily overtaken the Anything into Oil article from discover... http://www.discover.com/may_03/featoil.html
Tuesday, September 16, 2003 2:59 AM by Roy Osherove

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Ugh. That's one gory picture in that article!
Tuesday, September 16, 2003 7:40 AM by Richard

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totally amazing
Wednesday, September 17, 2003 4:11 AM by Gary Brewer

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Here's a very hack and slash program to do it (it doesn't like punctuation) -



using System;
using System.IO;


class go {
public go(string file) {
StreamReader sr=File.OpenText(file);
string[] v=sr.ReadToEnd().Replace("\n","").Replace("\r","").Split(new char[]{' '});

Random r=new Random();

foreach(string str in v) {
// jumble the letters
char[] chars=str.ToCharArray();

for(int x=1;x<str.Length-1;x++) {
int rindex=r.Next(str.Length-2)+1;
char temp=chars[rindex];
chars[rindex]=chars[x];
chars[x]=temp;
}
Console.Write(chars);
Console.Write(" ");
}

}


public static void Main(string[] args) {
new go(args[0]);
}
}
Wednesday, September 17, 2003 11:03 PM by Devdutt Dave

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Wow....what a beauty.....in future no teacher to mark the spelling mistakes with red pen ink.
Thursday, September 18, 2003 3:55 AM by TrackBack

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Thursday, September 18, 2003 10:15 AM by Don

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Unbeleavable... I read that post with NO problem...
Friday, September 19, 2003 8:17 AM by Wenderson Teixeira

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By the way, when the word is too big and you scramble it to much, sometimes it doesn't work, for example:
uiilgntebinlle
uaedabrnle
ispbnpeahnierle
icmpesinborhenle
Friday, September 19, 2003 1:05 PM by TrackBack

# Hvad skal vi med folkeskolen ?

Tuesday, September 23, 2003 8:01 PM by foreigner

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I had no problem with 3 of 4.
uilgntebinlle - unintelligible
uaedabrnle - unreadable
ispbnpeahnierle - ???
icmpesinborhenle - incomprehensible
Not a naitve Elgnish skaeper, nor was I eevr good at sbrabcle ;)
Tuesday, December 09, 2003 7:37 AM by a teacher and his little red pen...

# re: Interesting research

> Wow....what a beauty.....in future no teacher to mark the
> spelling mistakes with red pen ink.

"the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae"
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"the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae"

But still a kewl research...
Monday, February 09, 2004 4:27 PM by sarah

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OMG THAT IS HEAVY!!!! I NVEER EEVN TOHUGHT AOBUT TAHT