Deos Splnielg Rlaley Mteatr?
December 5th, 2008
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Tehy say taht you can sbmarlce the ltreets in a wrod, and it wlil slitl be pfltceery utslbadnrnadee as lnog as you keep the fsrit and lsat lrtetes in the rhgit pcale. So tehn why do we feel all tihs pusersre to ccehk our snileplg?
Jim Gdeuat petiond out to me a tpyo in Gntseares Wutohit Gienes. I’m gald he chguat it elray, but I htae tpoys. Waht was I sspopeud to do? Did I hvae to gvie eynorevn tiehr menoy bcak and be ozecarstid form the ctmnimouy?
But wehn I rbreemmeed taht silneplg d’nseot acefft cpsihrenooemn vrey mcuh, I flet a lot bteetr. In fcat, I mhgit tnihk auobt ornfefig sblmearcd vsnireos of my eokobs at a dcnusoit.
Scnie the fsrit and lsat lrteets hvae to be in the rghit pacle, a wrod has to hvae at lsaet fuor ltretes in oedrr to srbalmce it. And eevn tehn, it wn’ot cgnahe if the mdldie of the wrod is a pdmorinlae, lkie “keep.”
I hvae to wdenor if smelbarcd wdros are awyals rblazoigcene, lkie suoicoiudlaipxecitslgaflacepiirris or asnairatnemilbatsesiditnishm. And mbyae tihs wnd’luot wrok on a rmusee, lkie “dreeisd srlaay: 17,93$5.”
But waht do you tnihk? Can we ralex our sdradnats for sniplelg and not wrroy auobt it so mcuh?
December 5th, 2008 at 7:08 am
Hunter, you took it a little too far here
– The concept is:
- Keep the first and last letter the same
- Mix up the letters in between
Howevre, if you mix them up too much like you have then a lot of words are unreadable. I’m still trying to work out some of them
10 / 10 for creativity though
Cheers,
Glen
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December 5th, 2008 at 9:00 am
It’s all that insane repetition we did in school that has structured our brain enough to pull off this trick in the first place. And Mary Poppins.
December 5th, 2008 at 9:22 am
Que?
LOL Hunter, great job! As a Spelling and Grammar Nazi myself, I am mortified when I catch a typo or incomplete sentence in my own writing. I have recently, too, and they’re out there on the Internets. Thankfully, other folks are willing to indulge the occasional, rather than usual, error.
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December 5th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Now, I know I am truly dyslexic because I had no problem reading that!
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December 5th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Hi Hunter: If there was one spelling mistake in the entire e-book you don’t need to worry (go for excellence, not perfection), but I think that spelling and grammar are important and we do need to try to edit our work carefully. Not checking your spelling is a little like taking a shower every morning but not brushing your hair; it just doesn’t look professional.
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December 5th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
Yeah, this wasn’t easy to read.
I think you better go back to conventional spelling.
December 5th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
You cun’t speel, lal!!
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December 5th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
You know… it’s crazy…. if you speed read the post you actually CAN “read” it… reading it slow and I was completely lost! I think the English language could use some “edits” to remedy awkward words spelled with letters that don’t correspond to sounds, etc. Patter and repetition allows for us to forget about what it all means… but a foreigner coming to an English speaking country it becomes extremely obvious how rough it is to learn.
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December 6th, 2008 at 2:24 am
I couldn’t really understand much of what was written.
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December 6th, 2008 at 10:35 am
Hi Hunter – I really struggled with a lot of this – especially towards the end. The odd typo is fine – but I couldn’t manage a whole book written like this.
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December 7th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
we say spelling doesn’t matter because there is spell check, but i bet you if we wrote letters or email like the above, spelling would matter, people wouldn’t want to read it.
i think it’s important, but i don’t judge people because of typos. i make a ton of them
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December 7th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
It seems the consensus is that people prefer conventional spelling!
For people who are stuck with the translation, here’s some help:
- understandable
- ostracized
- comprehension
- palindrome
- recognizable
- supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
- antidisestablishmentarianism
December 9th, 2008 at 7:54 am
That took me about 10 seconds longer to read. Amazingly it really wasn’t bad.
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