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For those who comment on my typing....

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...I saw this in someone's sig:
Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55% of plepoe can.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 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 huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! fi yuo cna raed tihs, palce it in yuor siantugr
Sadly, I can :(

I amn going to assume Ameena can too, since her typing can be just as bad :p
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Yeah, I've seen this before. It's interesting certainly, but I'd say that it doesn't mean you can ignore good spelling or good grammar! :)

We have rules to make comprehension easier, and anything that gets in the way slows down that comprehension. You might be able to understand the above gibberish, but I'd wager that your comprehension time is significantly slower than if it were spelled correctly.
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tbmub ploish wnis!
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yeah, that works in your natural language only. i can barely understand if i actually "think" in english instead of french.
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Heh, that thing has come up so often - I've read in more than once place that it's entirely untrue that it was based on a study from Cambridge University, and that the person in charge of language stuff there was somewhat surprised to read it, or something.
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You're right Linflas. I already stopped at 'cdnuolt'.

@beo:
Just this minute there's a movie in our TV called: Beowulf & Grendel. Is that related to your name?
And if so ... then ... oh wait, I must search my helmet first :P
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I've seen this quite often before, but not in English yet. For me, it also works in English, though not as fluently as in German. Quite amazing.
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Bit wrote: Just this minute there's a movie in our TV called: Beowulf & Grendel. Is that related to your name?
It's probably related to Beowulf, and not to Beowuuf, in the same way as Bat is not related to Bit. :wink:
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I've seen that, as low key films go it wasn't too bad actually! I liked Gerard Butler yelling to be fought and getting pelted with stones

And yeah, my name is a combination of Beowulf and Wuuf, a fact I usually completely forget since it was so long ago, and the beowulf connection was completely unrelated to the fact I eventually used the name on a fantasy board!
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Ha! Try that with german or arabic!! :D
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wouldn't work too well with asian or egyptian characters since they are often pictographic representations of whole or partial words :P
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Actually, I believe the faster you skim it, the better you read it. I've seen this one before, or something very similar.
Me??? I still have a hard time understanding some of the young people when they speak.

I just don't speak or comprehend the mumbo jumbo tribal language. :lol:
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I can, esaliy. But i sitll hvae pbroemls unedrndstanig even fninsh net salng.
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