tihs si ptrety cool!
Pure Metal
11-12-2006, 01:24
http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/6875/readingtestva3.jpg
it is pretty amazing :)
kinda old news but tis still cool to see the effect in practice
Losing It Big TIme
11-12-2006, 01:26
it is pretty amazing :)
Seconded
Reconaissance Ilsands
11-12-2006, 01:26
Seconded
Amen
New Zealandium
11-12-2006, 01:28
Yeah, I got that e-mail a few years ago. It's a little surprising, but with the typo's people make nowadays when trying to be normal, it's not really that amazing that we know how to read it as words as opposed to letters.
That just gave me a headache.
Chandelier
11-12-2006, 01:29
That is pretty cool.:)
Zarathoft
11-12-2006, 01:30
I remember my dad showed me that and then about a week later we read it in English class. It's pretty sweet.
Teh_pantless_hero
11-12-2006, 01:32
That only works really well for less than 5 or maybe 6 letter words, otherwise you have to think about it.
Pure Metal
11-12-2006, 01:32
I remember my dad showed me that and then about a week later we read it in English class. It's pretty sweet.
as long as you only skim over it, it works. if you try to actually read it (properly) then it becomes nonsense.... or maybe that's just me.
anyway more random cool stuff:
http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/pc/neuron-galaxy.jpg
:)
Infinite Revolution
11-12-2006, 01:33
buh-wah!?:eek: i can read it almost as fast as i can normal spelling. my head hurts more from wondering how that's possible than from actually reading it. amazing indeed!
Awhile ago, I found this site (http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/~mattd/Cmabrigde/), which analyzes this meme in the context of other languages. The report is pretty lengthy, but I seem to remember that he found that the trick only works if you scramble the words in a certain way.
The page also links to a scrambling app (http://www.stevesachs.com/jumbler.cgi), which rendered the above paragraph thusly:
Alwhie ago, I fnoud tihs stie, whcih alneyzas tihs mmee in the cnoxtet of otehr luaaeggns. The rpreot is petrty lhnetgy, but I seem to rmmbeeer taht he fnoud taht the tcirk olny wokrs if you salmbrce the wdors in a caeritn way.
See? Much less parse-able. (Well, it may be easier since you know what it's supposed to say...)
New Zealandium
11-12-2006, 01:41
Awhile ago, I found this site (http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/~mattd/Cmabrigde/), which analyzes this meme in the context of other languages. The report is pretty lengthy, but I seem to remember that he found that the trick only works if you scramble the words in a certain way.
The page also links to a scrambling app (http://www.stevesachs.com/jumbler.cgi), which rendered the above paragraph thusly:
See? Much less parse-able. (Well, it may be easier since you know what it's supposed to say...)
Did you just find an academic paper about such an obscure subject? That's pretty sweet. I give you a cookie.
And yeah, IIRC the general order of letters is the same, most words, the first and last letter are the same, and the letters inside that are put into pairs and swapped with occasional gaps in the scrambling. As shown in the conversion of the word "Languagues" and the word"Scramble" It was much harder then most of the words in the OP.
EDIT: Upon further review of the OP, it's not always the case, most notable thing I saw was the Last word of the First paragraph, Anyone want to unscramble that into a word for jme? I can't figure out what it's supposed to be (I read that as reading, however it has two g's, and no A)
New Stalinberg
11-12-2006, 01:50
That is pretty cool.
Monkeypimp
11-12-2006, 02:34
so.... old...
I V Stalin
11-12-2006, 02:37
EDIT: Upon further review of the OP, it's not always the case, most notable thing I saw was the Last word of the First paragraph, Anyone want to unscramble that into a word for jme? I can't figure out what it's supposed to be (I read that as reading, however it has two g's, and no A)
I think it is meant to be reading, but someone fucked up.
Potato jack
11-12-2006, 02:59
Awhile ago, I found this site (http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/~mattd/Cmabrigde/), which analyzes this meme in the context of other languages. The report is pretty lengthy, but I seem to remember that he found that the trick only works if you scramble the words in a certain way.
The page also links to a scrambling app (http://www.stevesachs.com/jumbler.cgi), which rendered the above paragraph thusly:
Alwhie ago, I fnoud tihs stie, whcih alneyzas tihs mmee in the cnoxtet of otehr luaaeggns. The rpreot is petrty lhnetgy, but I seem to rmmbeeer taht he fnoud taht the tcirk olny wokrs if you salmbrce the wdors in a caeritn way.
See? Much less parse-able. (Well, it may be easier since you know what it's supposed to say...)
The word in bold is the only one I can't get.
The word in bold is the only one I can't get.
"scramble" ;)