OT- Spelling is out.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

"dog" (meaning a good friend)

Last time i ran into dog used to mean other than a type of furry animal, it was negative.

[ September 15, 2003, 22:22: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

[oleg]

Originally posted by Mephisto:
Here is the translation into German. You have to scramble it on your own.

Forschern an einer englischen Universität zufolge spielt es keine Rolle, in welcher Reihenfolge die Buchstaben eines Wortes angeordnet sind, wichtig ist lediglich, daß der erste und der letzte Buchstabe an der korrekten Position sind. Der Rest kann ein totaler Buchstabensalat und trotzdem lesbar sein. Der Grund dafür ist, daß wir nicht die einzelnen Buchstaben sondern das Wort als Ganzes lesen.

Impressive Now we need a reaction of other German speaking people to this gibberish

Still, even German has a lot of 3-4 letter words. I can do a similar test in Russian but wonder if anybody here can respond

[Krsqk]

Originally posted by oleg:
Still, can anybody test the original hypothesis to be a true and universal universal statement of human mind function or an another anecdotal freak of English language ?

FWIW, I found the English scrambled by native English-speakers to be easier to read than that scrambled by second-language speakers. *shrug* Maybe English speakers scramble into patterns which still make some sense in the language (like vowel/consonant placement, potential syllables, etc.).

[Mephisto]

Remember, you have to scramble it first. The below german text is spelled correctly (well, at least I hope so ).

[Narrew]

Damn, I read that with no problem. I guess that would be a good way of "hiding" the text right out in front of everyone, well it would have to be people that don't speak English well.

Slinky, your a funny guy, saying all that AND from Atlanta *chuckle*. I do agree with you, I do not think of myself as a prejudice person, but when I can not understand someone speaking, I have a lower opinion of that person (of course if English is a second language, I can give ALOT of slack for that), I was with a co-worker at an AM/PM and the guy behind the counter spoke horrid English, and my buddy said something to the effect "why can't people that come to this country learn to speak clear English" and the guy behind the counter said "why? I was born here.". Very sad.

[Grandpa Kim]

Originally posted by oleg:
Still, can anybody test the original hypothesis to be a true and universal universal statement of human mind function or an another anecdotal freak of English language ?

I can and did test it on Jake's original post.

It slows me down! Yes I can puzzle it out fairly easily but I can read much faster when all words are spelled correctly-- and so can you! Even an everyday misspelling like "lite" in place of "light" slows me down. Observe your own reading; I'll bet poor spelling slows you down too.

[Kamog]

Originally posted by Andres:
Mnareil penatls are teh bset.

It took me a few seconds to read this one. Actually, for a couple of moments I could not decode Mnareil and penatls, but by seeing the Last three words I immediately recognized the entire sentence.