Direct from Cambridge Research
Dec 1st, 2005 by Don Ray
Olny srmat poelpe can raed tihs.
I 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 tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!
That’s pretty cool, but it actually does work. I wonder if that will work with my Spanish?
Good question. My verbal Spanish seems to come out that way most of the time. I try to avoid writing in Spanish.
Gerat Sutff
Gald you lkied it!
[...] You may have seen the research done by Cambridge University related to spelling. Your mind will compensate for misspelled words and you may miss your own errors. I read, and reread what I post and I still make mistakes. [...]
Yes! It works with other languages too, even those that aren’t your mother tongue! I am a a foreign language teacher and at a recent conference they had the audience read a similar paragraph in Spanish, with jumbled spelling. I couldn’t believe that my mind could figure out what it was supposed to say in Spanish too! The key, however, is that you must already be familiar with the jumbled words. Your brain can only re-arrange the letters of words you already know, not new words. It’s still mind-blowing, if you ask me!