Can You Read?

Irish · #1 05-12-2006, 12:49 PM

My sister-in-law sent this one along this morning in the e-mails and I thought I would share it.

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Subject: Can you read this
Try to read this. I'm sure you can....very interesting.

fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too
Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe can.
i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was
rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a
rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr
the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit
and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses
and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the
huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a
wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!
if you can raed tihs forwrad it.

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Susan

BobD · #2 05-12-2006, 12:55 PM

I've got that posted on my corkboard...That's my motto for writing--it's the thought that counts, not necessarily the arrangement of the letters <grin>

Don't tell Shannon or Gretchen I said taht <grin>

Bob

AlArchie · #3 05-12-2006, 01:44 PM

Nothing new for us dyslexics, Susan! Been reading that way all our lives, at least those of us who have learned to cope with the condition. Let me tell ya, though, doing this with numbers ain't quite the same; "with" may be with or twhi, but 123 ain't the same as 321, and no amount of eye adjustment will make it that.
A lot of dyslexics learn to read with no problem, by recognizing groups of letters as particular words, but I haven't met any d's who have not had a hard time handling numbers.

Interesting concept for the rest of the world, though!

Al

Thor · #4 05-12-2006, 02:22 PM

Al, I understand completely.
I can't do numbers at all, but reading Susan's paragraph didn't even slow me or my husband down. I suspect that a lot more than 55 people can do it.
Thor