Re: Language

Daniel Cassidy <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.cafe
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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On Sunday 28 September 2003 10:46 pm, Rinse de Vries wrote:
> 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?

I did a quick test myself with some 'volunteers', and it seems that a more 
accurate rule is that you can get away with jumbling most of the letters one 
or two places. Of course, given that most words in a sentence will be quite 
short, leaving the first and last letters intact causes this to be obeyed 
pretty much automatically. i notice also that particularly obvious 
combinations have been chosen deliberately for the longer words.
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