Re: CFFA Status?

[Roger Johnstone <news2006@roger.geek.nz>]

In <43BB4CB2.5050207@spurgeon.net> Mike Spurgeon  wrote:
> Alex Freed wrote:
> 
>> The world in general is relying way too much on the spell checkers 
>> that  can not catch wrong words.
> 
>   Try this...
> 
> 
> I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg.
> The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid. Aoccdrnig to a 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? yaeh and I awlyas thought
> slpeling was ipmorantt.

I read every word with no hesitation, except for one on the first line:
 "I couldn't believe that I could aulaclty..."

Aulaclty? That stopped me while I stared at it for several seconds 
trying to work out which word it was supposed to be. Ever other word 
looks fine except for aulaclty. Even though I quickly worked out it's 
actually 'actually', it still doesn't look like a real word when I read 
it! I tnhik trhee msut be a hloe in my biran.

-- 
Roger Johnstone, Invercargill, New Zealand
http://roger.geek.nz/
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