Friday, January 28, 2005

Read This.

cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd
waht I was rdanieg. 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 I awlyas thought
slpeling was ipmorantt! tahts so cool!!!

Well, I don't know what you think about this, but I think it's kinda cool but also stupid. Don't be fooled by the above because it only used common words we are so familiar with. People who read words and not see the order of the letters, learned to read from children's story books taught by non-teaching adults. We don't read letters, true, but we produce the sound of the letters. If we learn to read words, we will have a hard time learning a new language because doing so require that we learn to read the sounds of the letters and learn to pronounce them. For those who speak English as their second language, they can easily read the above paragraph with no problem at all, but at the same time, pronounce words we may encounter for the first time.

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