Bored? Naw...

Suzanne · Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2010 10:33 am Post subject: Bored? Naw...

Can you raed this? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.

I cdnuolt blveiee that I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd what I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in what oerdr the ltteres in a word are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is that the frsit and last ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can still raed it whotuit a pboerlm. This is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the word as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? Yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

My Dad sent this to me
Suz

shrpshtrjoe · Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2010 10:45 am Post subject: Re: Bored? Naw...

Thats pretty cool. I could read it Confused

not sure if thats good or bad though Insane

Aloysius · Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2010 10:54 am Post subject: Re: Bored? Naw...

How did your dad sent this? Doesn't he have spelling control on his smoke-signals? Or is this your native language? Smile

Dimitri · Super Member Joined: Nov 25, 2005 Posts: 5946

Actually, only 55 out of 100 people in English speaking countries. Otherwise, its alot less then that. It is also the reason dyslexia is a strange phenomenon, in 99% of all other language in the world it doesn't exist only in English.

So for all you non-native English speakers if you can't read it its because your mind has not been screwed up yet by the English language.

And yes I can read that just fine.

Dimitri

chambered221 · Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2010 12:00 pm Post subject: Re: Bored? Naw...

Nto a porlbem at all !!! Smoe psot aruond here aer acutlyl mroe chaelnging !!! Bang Head

Suzanne · Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2010 1:51 pm Post subject: Re: Bored? Naw...

Aloysius!! Yes this is my native language. Can you read it? Very Happy

Suz

slimjim · Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2010 1:51 pm Post subject: Re: Bored? Naw...

Very interesting! I don't think my reading speed was slowed much at all.

Pumpkinslinger · Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2010 7:06 pm Post subject: Re: Bored? Naw...

I put that up at work once and everyone who tried it could read it...

Pumpkinslinger · Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2010 7:09 pm Post subject: Re: Bored? Naw...

D, not so sure about that. From Wikipedia:

"Effect of language orthography

The complexity of a language's orthography or spelling system – formally, its orthographic depth – has a direct impact on how difficult it is to learn to read that language. English has a comparatively deep orthography within the Latin alphabet writing system, with a complex orthographic structure that employs spelling patterns at several levels: principally, letter-sound correspondences, syllables, and morphemes. Other languages, such as Spanish, have alphabetic orthographies that employ only letter-sound correspondences, so-called shallow orthographies. It is relatively easy to learn to read languages like Spanish; it is much more difficult to learn to read languages with more complex orthographies, such as English. [41] Logographic writing systems, notably Japanese and Chinese characters, have a purer direct relationship between the sound of a word and the representative visual symbols, which pose a different type of dyslexic difficulty."

Bushmaster · Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2010 7:24 pm Post subject: Re: Bored? Naw...

Say What???

Suzanne · Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2010 7:43 pm Post subject: Re: Bored? Naw...

Now that one from Pumpkin was much harder to read the first time. It's like this Bushy, either the misspellings are wrong or there's a bunch of made up words that were contrived. If you don't know how to spell it, chances are, you'll end up spelling something else. 90% of spelling is half mental. If you look at someone writing, you can observe a lot just by watching. Obviously though some of the similarities are different.

Yogi Berra
Suz

Bushmaster · Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2010 7:54 pm Post subject: Re: Bored? Naw...

Oh I read yours just fine. It's all that mumbo-jumbo that pumpkinslinger posted...

Suzanne · Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2010 10:42 pm Post subject: Re: Bored? Naw...

Bushy!!!!!!!!!!! I was just makin fun of Pumpkin not you!! I took a bunch of Yogi Berra quotes and screwed them up. I only added your name because it was a way to make a segway into makin fun of Pumpydumpkin, as if his big words were just made up jibberish, misspelled and all.......orthography........morphemes......oh never mind....read it over and you'll see each sentence is a screwed up Yogi quote. Then go have another beer...I'm buyin! Gawd I have to explain my jokes....Well just so everyone knows, there's no assault intended, the names have been avatar-ed to protect the innocent. Only a few useless animals were swatted in the making of this post.

Hey is Missouri getting hot? EugeneSpringinsaw is and I don't like it. The Country Fair was this weekend, I can smell the naked hippies from here. Oh yeah that reminds me the annual Nudist Fest was this weekend too. In Marcola, they got together a bunch of nudies and tried to make a world record with how many naked people they could fit in a swimming pool. Couldn't make it there myself, probably not old enough anyway. The people they interviewed on the news were mostly men and mosty in their retirement years. What a motley swimmin pool event that musta been. Buncha old guys guarding their privates from the other old guys and they push more in to mark up the numbers. Sorta like boot camp at the lunch line. They always squished us together in line as close as possible. Never understood that...lesbos probably...Just thought you might wanna know what yer missin!

very informative
very tactfull
Suz

Dimitri · Super Member Joined: Nov 25, 2005 Posts: 5946

Pumpkinslinger wrote:

D, not so sure about that.

I am more referring to this. The "depth" of the language (meaning the more screwed up it is) makes reading it more difficult. This is cause by the requirement to memorize so many different "rules". Some children cannot make heads or tails of it. In many languages not just Spanish, kids over come it long before it manifests itself into a condition (in Greek 24 letters and only 4 letter combination's to remember to read IIRC) but in English with

Quote::

English has 40 sounds, but there are more than 1,100 different ways to spell those sounds. For instance, the words "mint" and "pint" differ by only one letter, but the pronunciation in English is completely different.

It can take into early adulthood to treat it by teaching them all the rules over and over again.

Dimitri

Aloysius · Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 1:42 am Post subject: Re: Bored? Naw...

Does anyone want to talk about chinese now?

@Suz: of course I could read it but it was more difficult now then when I saw this in my own language, now I had to go back several times before I was back on trail.
But still it was a lot easier to understand than the short idioms you often use to end your replies Smile

(and not this "very informative - very tactfull" which is an exception without all these shorted '-words)