NationStates Jolt Archive

Typoglycemia

Don't delete this because it looks weird. Believe it or not you can
read it. I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg
The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid. Aoccdrnig to rscheearch taem 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. Such a cdonition is arppoiately cllaed Typoglycemia
Amzanig huh? Yaeh and yuo awlyas thought slpeling was ipmorantt.

And in other news, WW2 has ended..

That means I'm afflicted with Anti-typoglycemia.

Yeah when William S. Burroughs started cutting his own work up and re-arranging it word by word or sentence by sentence, he claimed it was to encourage people to attempt reading his work as a whole, and not in a linear fashion. It works, but not always well.

Especially when you begin splicing multiple stories together.

Either way that's insane. Did they test mentally handicapped to see if it had the same effect?

Yep, I read it fine.

Wow, I alerady kenw abotu tihs.

It only works with words you know well. For example, if someone were to write an article on some obscure artist, or a heart condition, you may not be able to read it as easily.