CAN YOU RAED THIS? OLNY 55 PLEPOE OUT OF 100 CAN

[OLDEREK]

Can you raed this? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.

I cdnuolt blveiee that I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd what I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in what oerdr the ltteres in a word are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is that the frsit and last ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can still raed it whotuit a pboerlm. This is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the word as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? Yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

[Bojan]

wtih esae . . . I geuss I'm oen of thsoe 55 pecrent !!

[Twang46]

Oh daer, me to

[Tab]

Ah! but at least the words still contain the same letters. It's when people make up their own spelling confusion occurs. Or failing to know the difference between their & there, here & hear, your & you're etc.

Call me old fashioned but I think a basic grounding in the workings of one's native language is important in maintaining standards.

Inetsreitng pecie, tohguh, Deerk.

PS I've got a computer keyboard which takes it upon itself to miss out letters altogether, creating a message which even I can't understand.

Kind regards to all.

[John M]

Apostrophe's cause the same problem's. People just dont know where to put the the blooming thing's!

[Sleepwalker63]

Apostrophe's cause the same problem's. People just know where to put the the blooming thing's!

I hope you were deliberately using them incorrectly here!!

[John M]

Oop's. Missed out the word "dont" in my previous message's.

[shadowhunters]

haha, classic i'm one of the 55 percent!

[John M]

Reminds me of Stanley Unwin... and his "Unwinese"