Proofread for Spelling? Fuggetaboutit.

April 11th, 2007 · 8 Comments

I ran across this a few years ago, but it recently resurfaced in my email from a colleague, who had it forwarded from someone else. So apparently it’s still getting passed around.

I’m working on a couple more meaty posts. But this is pretty interesting in its own right:

i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. Thephaonmneal 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 rghitpclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit apboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter byistlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs forwrad it.

8 responses so far ↓

1 Shamoo // Apr 11, 2007 at 11:03 pm

First comment AGAIN!

Yes, I’ve gotten that cool cat email before.
2 Mckenzie // Apr 12, 2007 at 1:15 am

Chris,

That is very interesting! I read through the whole paragraph without even having to pause. The brain is amazing, isn’t it? I read once that people, as they grow old, won’t even know they have blind spots in their eyes because the brain processes whatever it is they are looking at, and paints the rest of the image in– basically tricking your eyes as not to see any blind spots. Weird, huh?

Kenzie
3 Homemom3 // Apr 12, 2007 at 10:16 am

I love these things, I get these all the time in emails from family and friends. It’s amazing how well one can read it.

Hi Homemom,

These things are pretty cool. Feel free to share when you find something particularly neat. I’ll be stopping by your blog as well. You do a good job with it.

Chris
4 cityteacher // Apr 22, 2007 at 5:52 pm

This is the power that I use to read my younger students’ writings! It’s a real useful power where I come from.

Thanks for that comment. I read your blog–very interesting and insightful.

Thanks for the visit.

Chris
5 Jess // Apr 23, 2007 at 2:41 am

I think I’ll start writing emails to my family that way. Maybe blogging too. And pretend that it’s completely normal.

That would be funny.
Chris
6 Renaissance Blogger » Kan U Spel Korektly // Apr 27, 2007 at 4:49 pm

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7 Eric // Apr 27, 2007 at 6:23 pm

Amazing how the brain works. I printed it out and tried to see if my second graders could read it…and, yup, about 75% of them were able to get through it with few errors AND for most of them English is their second language!
8 Crystal Anderson // Sep 12, 2007 at 10:52 pm

I remember doing this last year with Miss Wolff, in that Language Arts class. It is acually really amazing how your mind knows that as long as the first and last letter are in place, the word makes complete sense. But I have a question. What if you acually can’t read that? Is there something wrong with your mind? I myself can read this. But that question had me thinking. What if you can’t?

~Crystal~

Hi Crystal,

I certainly don’t think there is anything wrong with you if you can’t read it. Actually, I think it’s pretty amazing anybody can read that.

Thanks for visiting!

Mr. Wondra

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