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I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdgnieg.The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid Aoccdrnig to rscheearch 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. Amzanig huh?
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This explains how people can read my sloppy handwriting.
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I blogged about this meme and its origins. As a result, I got slash-dotted and ended up in Snopes. [Addendum: I seem to be reliving the past in ever-tightening circles of forgetfulness, or What Eta Said.]
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20032004guess it was time for this years'....
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would anybody mind if I yell YART! when this gets posted in 2006?! 
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I wouldn't mind, t. zmjheemed, actually, it was kind a fun to re-read all that old stuff. 
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Well, how about that!?
Alas, Anglicans are nothin' if not into tradition.
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I doubt this can be claimed universally for "the human mind", though. At uni we translated this text quite freely into Spanish, rescrambled the letters except for the first and last in every word, and gave it to some people (students and colleagues) to read. While most of the text was easy, many of them had problems getting the longer words, especially those which were compounds and derivates. Those were probably not being read as "chunks".
Also, I cannot imagine how a German reader would cope with scrambled "train-car constructions"...
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would anybody mind if I yell YART! when this gets posted in 2006?! Why would you wait *that long...
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