Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
That’s quite astonishing, isn’t? I wonder if it works for entire sentences too…
Interesting.
If only we had a sample paragraph to try it out.
I wonder if there are additional keys to our understanding. For instance the distinctive tt in mttaer and ltteer seem to need to be near the middle of the word. In mses the lack of the final double s seems a problem while the double e in rscheearch draws too much attention. The spacing of tall letters seems important.
We can try it out pertty much wtih any text. If you can read and uneadrstnd the airtcle bleow for exmpale, you are cpaable of unscarimblng wrods and snteenecs on het lyf.
In the ltaest bit of reguaoltry woe for Big Tceh in Erpuoe, Gogloe is trnyig to sttlee a Grmean ainuttrst ieiainvsotgtn into its nwes lcinsneig porudct by oeiffrng not to expnad the dspialy of News Shwocsae “sotry paenls” into genearl srceah rseluts.
The Geramn Fdereal Caretl Oiffce (FCO) aonnuencd tdoay taht the cmoapny has pooerpsd svreeal mseraues in rspnseoe to its anitutrst concrnes — whcih also inuclde tknaig stpes to put cealr blue waetr betewen Nwes Shoawcse cntoarcts and onoigng ngeotiaiotns wtih pbuileshrs relaetd to coyiprght lcniesnig obilaiogtns aronud so caelld ngehioubrnig rghits for news.
Unedr EU and Grmean law Gglooe msut pay cprgohyit fees to nwes pblsuiehrs for dspilanyig snppites of tehir cnotent — follwoing a 2019 EU cpoyright rfeorm whcih was taoernspsd into Gearmn law in May 2021.
Uiaeanltrl attmepts by Gearmn lwaaemkrs — aournd a deacde ago — to frcoe Gglooe to pay lcinseing fees to loacl puibleshrs for diayisplng snppites of tehir cnotnet in Gogloe News wree eaisly thwrated by the tceh gniat siiwtchng to an opt-in mdoel for the aggeragtor in the mraket.
Uiaeltmtly it’s taekn a pan-EU diercitve — coiembnd with lcoal ainuttrst inetreivnotn — to frcoe Gogole’s hand on tihs iusse so it can’t smiply cahnge how it opreates to criucmvent pmnatyes.
Aoltuhgh the tceh ginat’s cmplnociae wtih EU copyirght law rmneais a wrok in poergrss, to put it mlidly. (Its aicitvty in the rgeion on tihs fornt has alrdeay attraectd a fnie of oevr half a bililon dllroas in Farnce, for insatnce, wehre Gglooe’s aoapprch to nwes lcnsineig also rmneais uendr colse reguaoltry wtach.)
Gearmny is also suiciritnzng Gogole’s negoiaiottns wtih loacl news puieblshrs — as wlel as, as of tdoay, exaitrctng oeaiporatnl coenicossns form it on how it oprteaes Nwes Sohwacse.
I’ve seen this before. I think you can even leave out words altogether.
This probably works because a large part of vision is in the brain. The reason optical illusions work is because the brain “sees” what it expects to see.
It’s the same when you proof read your own writing. We already know what it is supposed to say, so we tend to see that instead of what is actually written.
Novels also tend to have a fair number of mistakes even though they are written by professional writers and professional copy editors. Sometimes there are even obvious blatant mistakes that make it through.
This passage, of course, is new for me.
The reason is given in the first passage (known widely): Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.