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Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Earring 0164 - Wow - 164 pairs of earrings

No two are alike yet - it may just be a color or size difference, but no two are alike. Kind of like my sister and I. We have similar personalities, our voices sound the same, but our sizes are different. Like earrings, one person will like this one and another will like the other one. People are the same too.

Looks like another night of rambling.

I got caught off guard today on something personal. Hate when that happens. I like to be prepared and have things in place. Then with my router not working, it's hard to talk on the phone to people. When one of my nephews called, I could comprehend what he was saying even though I couldn't hear the first couple of letters of each word. Kind of like the mixed up letters in the following sentences:

1. "Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe."

2. "Cna yuo raed tihs? if yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid, too.

I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulatcly uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae.

The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.



Azanmig hhu? Yaeh, and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

Qoestuin -
Can thsi be doen in ohter lnagugues? Snapsih, Fenrch, Iatilan, Gerek, Rissuan. Chenise, Jaapense, Herbew, Aaribc? "

1 and 2 are from https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090527150856AAsMoFh

http://scienceavenger.blogspot.com/2007/12/cambridge-word-scramble-study-its-fake.html:

"In a way this is a cheap magician's trick, because the only reason people can read the scrambled words is because they aren't very scrambled. Fixing the first and last letters means 2 and 3 letter words don't change at all, and 4 letter words just swap the middle letters. That's the bulk of our vocabulary. Try making a sentence with very long words, and our ability to read words "as a whole" mysteriously vanishes. To wit:

Bblaaesl pryleas pnmrrioefg sllaimy aeoulltsby dvrseee clbrpmaaoe tteenmrat.

is incomprehensible, because now every word is truly scrambled, with the first and last letters being an insignificant proportion of the total.:

I tried to read the sentence that start Bblasesl but couldn't even get past the first word.

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