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Originally Posted by EowynCarter
I read it at almost normal speed.  |
Well
almost ... sure.
But at full speed, I had to pause to allow a couple of the words to "resolve." I wouldn't have had to pause on those few if everything had been spelled correctly.
I've always found that experiment a bit humorous, because it claims that spelling is unimportant; yet the entire thing is predicated on the fact that everyone reading it
knows how the words are supposed to be spelled.
It doesn't mean spelling is unimportant at all. It simply means that a few transposed letters won't trip up a literate person's comprehension for very long. But if enough people started randomly jumbling the interior letters of many words they wrote, I guarantee future generations (who were educated by those word-jumblers) would start having major difficulties with written communication at some point. Because they'd have no correct frame of reference to begin with.
