Can oyu raed tihs?

My brother the optometrist sent this to me.

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. yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs forwrad it.


Azanmig huh?

On.

make taht 300 wpm.

That's cool. It's also the concept I'm learning about sign language--the shape of the hand/fingers as a whole is what is important and not the individual letters.

http://www.snopes.com/language/apocryph/cambridge.asp

Snopes is undecided as to the origin. I admit it's interesting though.

The sample paragraph is also very slow to read. A very noisy signal, as it were.

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Urb the Spelling & Grammar Fiend

My brother, the optometrist, told me that he uses this to discern some types of reading disabilities and/or problems. I just thought it was kinda cool. *shrug*