Why spelling doesn't matter

Discussion in 'Random Thoughts' started by dhs, Mar 10, 2005.

  1. dhs

    dhs Senior Member

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    The Human Mind

    Don't delete this because it looks weird.

    Believe it or not you can read it.



    i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdgnieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at

    Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be

    in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? yaeh and you awlyas thought slpeling was ipmorantt



     
  2. Peanuts

    Peanuts Nutz

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    Good point. :)

    I read that whole thing without a problem.
     
  3. NaykidApe

    NaykidApe Bomb the Ban

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    So basically you're saying Bridget Bardo rode a steam engine to Geneva just before the avalanche engulfed breadsticks on a paper coated embryo nut wagon?
     
  4. happyhippyflower

    happyhippyflower Sucker Punch

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    htis is liek so nwe!! oh wehre ho wrehe did oyu fnid it?

    :rolleyes:
     
  5. akunasaka24

    akunasaka24 Member

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    thats cool
     
  6. measa420

    measa420 Member

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    ~*dhs*~
    that was awesome
    very impressed
    never seen that
    before
    :D
     
  7. nitemarehippygirl

    nitemarehippygirl Senior Member

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    weird.....
    yeah i read that whole thing at pretty much the same speed as i normally would.

    *pats brain* good job! ...? :p
     
  8. dhs

    dhs Senior Member

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    My gardomthenr has ltos of fere tmie and sdnes me wried eimls lkie tihs
     
  9. nitemarehippygirl

    nitemarehippygirl Senior Member

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    all ym grnadmohtre vere sdens me rae e-imals baout hre arhtrtis. :(
     
  10. Raving Sultan

    Raving Sultan Banned

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    What do you mean by nut?
     
  11. NaykidApe

    NaykidApe Bomb the Ban

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    Sorry, that was a typo. I meant to say "thermal nuclear spandex livers".
     
  12. peacefuljeffrey

    peacefuljeffrey Senior Member

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    Yes, so did I. But no, that doesn't prove "why spelling doesn't matter."

    If there were no PROPER spellings of all those words that are misspelled in the paragraph shown, you would not be able to "make sense" out of the scrambled spellings.

    The only reason you can make sense out of it is because each word is a jumble of a REAL word that you DO know how to spell.

    -Jeffrey
     
  13. peacefuljeffrey

    peacefuljeffrey Senior Member

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    Dude, that was fuckin' FUNNY!! :D

    -Jeffrey
     
  14. measa420

    measa420 Member

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    damn dude shut the fuck up and let
    everyone have fun
    start your own thread and
    quit trying to bring everyone
    down to your level
    its time for you to
    take your speak and spell and
    go sit in the closet or something
    ;)
     
  15. peacefuljeffrey

    peacefuljeffrey Senior Member

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    So who the fuck made you the arbiter of what I get to say, and which discussions I join?! :$



    Someone tried to palm this little oddity off as though it absolves everyone of ever having to spell anything right. (Oh, and it's not actually a study from Cambridge -- that's been debunked -- even though it does actually work. I guess whoever realized it wanted to back it with some sort of air of authority, so they said it was a Cambridge study when it wasn't.)

    Think about it: If there were no CORRECT spelling of a word like "everyone," then what would your mind be "seeing" when it saw "ereyvnoe" and figured out that it meant "everyone"? There has to be a correct word -- "everyone" -- in order for your brain to "register" IT when it saw the mispelled version.

    Without a correctly-spelled true version of any given word, this trick would not work. In such a case, all we'd be looking at would be random jumbles of letters. They need to be correlated to some REAL words in order to make any sense.

    What I did does not diminish the fascinating truth that our brains make sense out of those words as long as the first and last letters are in the correct places. That's still "fun." I didn't "ruin" it for anyone. I was just putting a stop to the fallacy that this somehow proves that we don't need correct spellings.

    -Jeffrey
     
  16. bedlam

    bedlam Senior Member

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    Jeffrey peaceful
     
  17. measa420

    measa420 Member

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    blah blah blah
    jeff you are such an angry person
    why dont you take some advice
    from some uneducated hippies
    and
    SHUT THE FUCK UP
    ;)
     
  18. dhs

    dhs Senior Member

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    This thread was just a little humor jeffrey and yes, you are right, the correct spelling would need to be established in order to read a jumbled version of a word.

    It was just a little fun. It seems to me that unless you're sucking up to some girl on here in hopes of getting a foot job, you're completely uptight.

    I should also mention that you are a hypocrite. Above you ask the poster, "So who the fuck made you the arbiter of what I get to say, and which discussions I join?! :$ "

    To that I ask, who the fuck made you the spelling and grammar check for the forums?

    You are so very quick to judge and criticize others, yet the second someone disagrees with what you say or your behavior, you get your panties all in a bunch. Is wearing women's underwear a fetish of yours as well?
     
  19. Juggalo4ever

    Juggalo4ever KingoftheChubbyGirls

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    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/juggsnakedclub/
     
  20. lynsey

    lynsey Banned

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    dude I'm sorry but you are such a little bitch.
     
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