Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 8:17 am
I believe it was this:jimtyrrell wrote:There was an email floating around that sort of dealt with this idea. If you keep the first and last letters in place, you can pretty much mix up the rest of the word and still maintain readability.
Anyone got a copy of that email? It was pretty funny.
Of course there are plenty of other cues that help you read it: 1) All one, two, and three-letter words are intact, and these are very context-informative. 2) The paragraph has a very coherent and relevant meaning. 3) The words are all pretty short. 4) I'm not sure the letter scrambling is random ("rscheearch" in particular is weird: it should end in an 'r' for "researcher" and not 'earch' which is pretty much a giveaway. "porbelm" and "ltteers" look rigged to me).the email wrote:Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rest can be a total 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. Fcuknig amzanig huh?
But it's cute, and probably correct in spirit.