Can you read this?

[Injury]

Before clicking the thread I said to myself... "So help me if this is that facking garbled text Cambridge University BS AGAIN I'm going to tell him he's a tard."


You're a tard.

 

[hanoverphist]

Originally posted by: yelo333
I think almost everyone can. I think the trick is that the first and last letter of each word are correct, which is all you need to read a word.

and the length.

 

[clamum]

While the text in the OP is easy to read, I think there's more to it than just the first and last letters:

Originally posted by: batchusa
Try reading this:

scolhos ardseds pretjceod dorp

I got "school" for the first word and "drop" for the last, but that's it. I read a webpage once that referenced the text (or one very similar to it) in the OP and it went into more detail of what I'm getting at. They used the same text but mixed around the letters in between the first and last letters and it came out quite unreadable compared to the first version.

 

[batchusa]

Originally posted by: clamum
While the text in the OP is easy to read, I think there's more to it than just the first and last letters:


I got "school" for the first word and "drop" for the last, but that's it. I read a webpage once that referenced the text (or one very similar to it) in the OP and it went into more detail of what I'm getting at. They used the same text but mixed around the letters in between the first and last letters and it came out quite unreadable compared to the first version.

[/quote]
The phrase was "Schools address projected drop" (got it from the front page of washingtonpost.com).

 

[Kyteland]

Repost, and here's the proper response:

Follow-up: Can You Raed Tihs? meal worms writes "A Slashdot article appearing last Monday, which reported on the claim that scrambled words are legible as long as first and last letters are in place, was circulated to the University of British Columbia's Linguistics department. An interesting counter-example resulted:

"Anidroccg to crad cniyrrag lcitsiugnis planoissefors at an uemannd, utisreviny in Bsitirh Cibmuloa, and crartnoy to the duoibus cmials of the ueticnd rcraeseh, a slpmie, macinahcel ioisrevnn of ianretnl cretcarahs araepps sneiciffut to csufnoe the eadyrevy oekoolnr."

As demonstrated, a simple inversion of the internal characters results in a text which is relatively hard to decipher."

http://science.slashdot.org/ar.../09/25/2350239&tid=167

Edit: OK that slashdot link goes to the wrong article. It used to work back in the day.

 

[RaistlinZ]

RSPOET

 

[hanoverphist]

Originally posted by: batchusa

Originally posted by: clamum
While the text in the OP is easy to read, I think there's more to it than just the first and last letters:


I got "school" for the first word and "drop" for the last, but that's it. I read a webpage once that referenced the text (or one very similar to it) in the OP and it went into more detail of what I'm getting at. They used the same text but mixed around the letters in between the first and last letters and it came out quite unreadable compared to the first version.

The phrase was "Schools address projected drop" (got it from the front page of washingtonpost.com).[/quote]

i could read it after a few tries, but it didnt make sense to me so i thought i was wrong...

 

[Jeeebus]

Originally posted by: Anubis
spelling is worthlesss IMO

just because people can understand it, doesn't mean they're going to read it. if i start reading a brief/motion that is plagued with misspellings, I'm either going to stop reading or develop a preconceived notion that the author is an idiot and I should discount what I'm reading.

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
r r r r rr eeeeeeeeeeeeeee post, I thought lifers were better then this!

You ARE a lifer, you should know better than to think that