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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
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.  |
True. The reason I can read it is because of the way i learned to read (ie, see the words globally). And my brain, expert in scrambling the letters, is also an expert in un-scrambling them.Two words with the same letters, i will sometimes get the wrong one, forcing me to go back when the sentence don't make sense.
In France, they are now pushing to read sylabus per sylabus. Awful for people like me. I resort to that only for words I don't know. Something I don't, only to realize some times later I got it all wrong, because my brain mixed up the letters.