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 ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl 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.

Neat huh?

smoe ppoele cnat raed it taht way.

I can read it but it gives me eye strain.

Easier if you just read it aloud. It forces you to scan and not really read each word

I shudder to think how dyslexics read that passage.

the jumbled letters don't slow me down in the least.

i don't read like many do, anyway...i go either straight down the page or left-right right-left.

.elttil a elggig em edam taht gnideaR

Interesting. And pretty much you proved their theory!

And here I just thought you had horrible grammar skills! He he. Yeah, that's pretty neet-o.

.ehcadaeh a em sevig taht ekil gnidaeR

cool

That must be why the English language has rubbish spelling, it was realized that it didn't matter and the fore-running wanted to flaunt their ability to make marks.

I heard that the brain shuts down its record of time everytime the eyes move, so that while reading, this has to happen a lot.

This one of the more sublimely ridiculous ideas that has been circulating the web for years.

When accomplished readers read, we scan, but when we first began to read, we laboriously read word by word. We can read the passage above "correctly" because we learned to read "correctly." Give that passage to someone who is struggling to learn English and it will be gibberish.

And the order of words is the difference between "form" and "from," and "conversation" vs. "conservation."



English has "rubbish" spelling because the written word changes slowly. In Anglo-Saxon (aka Old English), the word "knee" was pronounced "kuh-nee"--the pronunciation changed but the spelling hasn't.

Try reading some ancient manuscripts before standardized spelling--you won't get far.

?sevil ruo fo tser eht rof sdrawkcab klat dluoc ew ebyaM

jeez i thought this was the Dyslexics page,FCUKING HELL

AM SURPRISED WE HAVENT HAD A PERV ON SAYING.....DOES ANYONE FANCY A 96???

Two relevent studies.
One on dyslexia.
One on palaeoanthropology, regarding cultural brain pattern changes between cultures which teach by oral tradition, and developed nations using academic schooling systems (verbal vs written learning).

The study on dyslexia found that people recognize words by the shape of the letters composing the word, like a codex. It triggers the memory response for what the word means. Dyslexic people just can't retain the order of the letters, but can read just fine with special attention to their needs during schooling.

The palaeoanthropology study found that stone age cultures teaching by verbal tradition use different brain areas for memory when compared to students of academic studies like modern developed national cultures.
Memory recall is far more accurate and retrievable using verbal tradition, people remember the fairy tale even if they don't remember the lesson. Math students can forget most of what they've been taught if they're simply forced to concentrate on other occupations and have no more exposure to it.

Meaning the person taught that voices always have meaning will have more trouble with misplaced lettering than an academican, who simply passively looks at a page and recognizes whole words visually, almost in ignorance of what they might mean.

So, it's counter-intuitive, and harder for some.

And even with that knowledge, spelling nazi's aren't able to let shet go.

Chunking
pattern recognition
and an amazing adaptable processor

shudder

For one,many of these words often follow the other so our brain is already Predicting the next word. Maybe Dyslexic people such as myself rely on that more and therefore we can often pic the wrong word as some of use will read out a word that comes in to our head based on the last word and the first letter of the next if it appears it fits. I may mistake first letters sometimes typing but will see the mistake eventually but its uncommon to misread a first letter for me. Where I often do misread, is bigger words as we all scan off perhaps one key letter in the middle. I can be very bad at picking words out of my predictive text (cheat bar) on my phone,but not bad at make the decision. .lol it seems to be the problem with reading...the brain jumps to premature conclusion.

I read this study about 8 months ago and I was very surprised that 'everyone' reads that way, I thought it was just a type of a dyslexic way of thinking and that's why more mistakes are made.
Having said that I'm sure we read this very similar, its very easy to read,many of the words appear predictive and then I recognize it doesn't look right immediately.