Only great minds can read this.

[Keith Clements]

To my 'selected' strange-minded friends:


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Only great minds can read this.


fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too

Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 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!


I do not normally condone non Jowett postings.......

[Leo Bolter]

Oh dear, Keith . . .

I've a cosfnieson to mkae, tghuoh I'm not cteiran taht the qtoue "Olny gerat mdins can raed tihs." pieratns to me anloe!

I found that I could read the text in your post as easily as I if it was written out perfectly (and, I suspect that everyone else out there can too). It certainly is a lot harder to write like that

My reading problem lies with the "text speak" that people use these days. I plough through it slowly trying to work out each flaming word one at a time . . then have to read it again, so as to get the message. Our local paper is accepting letters to the Editor written like that! It makes me so mad! Not so much for them being published in that form, but because I can't resist the challenge of attempting to work out what the letter writers are actually saying . . Grrrrr!

Years ago we had a "learned" friend who was a poet/artist (as in painter) who insisted on using no capitals, spaces or punctuation marks in her correspondence, both written and typed. It was just one huge word! That was SO difficult for us to read that we just gave up reading her "rubbish". I suppose it was considered "arty"!

Anyway, it is quite amazing what the brain can handle.

A good post I say, Keith

Cheers, Leo

[Forumadmin]

Try Latin. that was originaly a continuous list of letters with no spaces, just like their numbers.

I had a letter from the Health Service this week with notes in 20 languages to help our multi-cultural society. Very interesting that only Farsi writes numbers that do not use the the Arabic numerals.

I find it incomprehensible how the people who do not use Roman letters like many Asian languages manage to even start reading ours. I certainly would not know where to start with Chinese all four of them, Indian all 8 of them, Thia, Arabic......

Perhaps the brain adopts the same technique and interprets the squiggles as words. I will stick with not speaking French; just English.

[Tim Neville]

To the other members of the newly formed Jowett Intellectual Society.

I too was amazed to find that as long as I didn't try to think about it, I read the whole text straight through perfectly.