fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too. Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.

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 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 rghi t pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

Tihs is old nwes, raed aoubt it lsat yaer.

Ptray popeor.

Tt'ahs waht I do. I'ts my cnalilg.

Hmm, if 55 out of 100 can read this wouldn't that make the 45 that can't read it the ones with the strange mind.

I'm in the majority.

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Ptray popeor. [/quote]

tihs is the olny one i had an iusse wtih

I think its less of a strange mind, And more about having had experience IM'ing people. Especially when drunk.

I think I read that the 45% that can't is also about the percentage of people that are barely functionally literate combined with illiterate as well.

no problem reading it here.

Mojo, you actually have a few words that don't follow the first/last letter configuration you mention.

dgueuf opjurtiy spdsodpoewpoe erteuonmihgyurt.

Ha! I could read it.

Reminds me of back when I used to be playing Everquest. In the game, you could buy and consume alcohol. There was even a trade skill to create it. Dwarves, of course, were the masters. Why I was reminded was because one of the effects of drinking this virtual alcohol was that as you typed text messages to other players online, your text would get more garbled the more you drank. You would see it being spelled fine on your screen but everyone else would see a garbled text that got worse to totally unintelligible, the more you drank.

Mcuh hraedr to tpye it tahn to raed it.

Asbtuleoly.