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#112133 - 09/16/03 07:59 AM Re: Try radenig tihs
paulb addict Registered: 03/17/00 Posts: 460 Loc: Hobart, Tasmania, Australia	<Were there any links provided for some background on this phenomenon?> No, AnnaStrophic, just the letter to the editor, and today's paper had no followup.
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#112134 - 09/16/03 03:40 PM Re: Try radenig tihs
Jackie Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 11580 Loc: Louisville, Kentucky	bshlulit! Oh, that one I had no trouble with; and the very same back to you, sir!
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#112135 - 09/16/03 08:13 PM Re: Try radenig tihs
AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 6511 Loc: lower upstate New York	Here's the conversation going on at Dave Wilton's wordorigins.com board (where, incidentally, the university in question is labeled as Cmabrigde ): http://pub122.ezboard.com/fwordoriginsorgfrm1.showMessage?topicID=7765.topic
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#112136 - 09/16/03 08:44 PM Re: Try radenig tihs
JohnHawaii member Registered: 01/17/03 Posts: 171 Loc: Hawaii, USA	aoprmpmhohripoc hlutanlicae eahepnlt cmsiounmt gaunalldr These all unscramble except the first one. Was that a test?
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#112137 - 09/16/03 10:29 PM Re: Try radenig tihs
Bingley Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/09/00 Posts: 3065 Loc: Jakarta	Egh-hem: http://www.snopes.com/language/apocryph/cambridge.asp Bingley _________________________ Bingley
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#112138 - 09/17/03 06:57 AM Re: Try radenig tihs
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13657	snopes A self-fulfilling urban legend?
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#112139 - 09/17/03 07:36 AM Thanks, Bingley
AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 6511 Loc: lower upstate New York	I'd been checking snopes daily on this, mah own sef. Let us await developments.
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#112140 - 09/17/03 12:56 PM Re: Thanks, Bingley
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13657	Here's a ninteresting if somewhat lengthy discussion. Warning: Takes some time to load even with a T-1 line. http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/28301#553630
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#112141 - 09/17/03 01:56 PM Re: Try radenig tihs
bonzaialsatian enthusiast Registered: 09/27/02 Posts: 261 Loc: London/Prague	>Was that a test? Oh, no I was just wondering whether longer, out of context words unscrambled - I find the fourth one harder - I keep reading cosmonaut.
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#112142 - 09/17/03 05:43 PM Re: Try radenig tihs
belMarduk Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/28/00 Posts: 2888	I had no trouble at all reading the letter either - but I do agree that if the words were longer it would be a tad more difficult without context. Just like you can often figure out what a word means by the sentence/paragraph around it, you can usually figure out a mixed up word the same way. This brings up related thing though... When it's really really late, and I'm trying to finish up a book that seems to drag out the end I have been know to skip over entire words, sometimes sentences, and still know what's going on. Do you think this is the brain working in the same way as understanding jumbled words?
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