Re: Language

Op zondag 28 september 2003 22:41, schreef Karl-Heinz Zimmer:
> Yes, quite amazing - but (imho) even more amazing is the fact that this
> statement is repeated all over the internet without the chance to get
> any definite _source_ of it: am I right that also you are not able to
> tell us /where/ and /when/ this stuff was bublished by the Cambridge
> University?  ;-)
Nope, but I can ask my source if he has a clue :)
>
> In a German magazine they even ask if this might be just an intelligent
> trick of some people who want to observe how fast such texts spread over
> the net...  :-)

Well, the research itself is rubbish, 
if you write all letters in a word from right to left, but leave the first and 
last letter in place, the string not that easy to read anymore:

anidroocg to a rcraeseh at cgdirbmae utisreviny it d'nseot mettar in waht
oedrr the lrettes in a wrod are, the olny iantropmt tnihg is taht the fsrit 
and lsat letter be at the rhgit pcale. The rset can be a tatol mses and you 
can slitl raed it wuohtit pelborm. Tihs is bsuacee the hamun mnid deos not 
raed erevy letter by ilestf, but the wrod as a wlohe. 
Fnikcug anizamg huh?


Rinse


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