Reading incorrect spellings

Sposs

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.

simu

Maybe, but it's still annoying:)

Imposter

Btu typos can ahppne ta the start adn ned oto.

Gordon

niteresgtin otpin uoy emak. I onwdre ohw ti oduwl eb fi I dimxe pu eth iftrs dan tlas elttser...

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

that's ****in cool

phaxx

So where did you find that, Sposs?

Sposs

Just got it in a mail

Beruthiel

bolody hlel!
my eeys

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

i wonder what it would be like to read an entire book written like that, it wasn't that difficult.

phaxx

http://sleepygeek.org/stuff/jumble/

Try it, mord. Some words harder than others.

"Wilhe the dael areged last yaer esvganied the tfnsraer of lnad wtroh 7886 miiolln Mr Dseempy said lsat nihgt the Govnrnmeet had rceetjed ehgit prteoieprs veulad at 10 million but of no use to the..."

Hm.
Things like abbreviations get pretty screwed though.

ixoy

Excellent ideas here for me. I've to write technically for a living, and I think these programs could jazz stuff up....

Capt'n Midnight

WORD ENDINGS
Actually word endings are not that important if you are looking for the history of a word. many accents screw up the ends of words
eg: Ballyfermah, Bunrahy Casel...

NOTE: The sounds of words have changed a lot over time..

VOWEL SHIFTS
The biggest sound change in words was the great vowel shift - this is the main reason we can't read ye olde english easily and continental languages seem to use strange pronunciations to pronounce thier vowels.
http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/vowels.html
http://alpha.furman.edu/~mmenzer/gvs/what.htm - look at the arrows


CONSONANT SHIFTS
http://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/anglist1/staff/holteir/introgen/unit04.htm

http://www.encyclopediaofauthentichinduism.org/articles/22_the_proto_germanic.htm
... the two ‘consonant shifts,’ one of the 6th century and the other before the Christian era, and described his principles that sound change is a regular phenomena. For example, he says that ancient unvoiced p, t, k became f, th/d, h, in Old Germanic and f, th, h, in English; and ancient voiced bh, dh, gh, became p, t, k, in Old German and voiced b, d, g in English. Similarly he also gave examples of Latin, Greek and Gothic etc., and also squeezed in some Sanskrit words telling the change of consonants, like: ‘padas’ (Sanskrit), ‘podas’ (Greek), ‘pedis’ (Latin) and ‘fotus’ (Gothic); it all means ‘foot.’

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http://pirate.shu.edu/~weislang/Linguistics.html
A basic guide to linguistic terms...

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See also http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&postid=1104540#post1104540

Caesar_Bojangle

I lkie ceehse.

Ceaasr

Capt'n Midnight

5 jumbles later...

Aoricdcng to aa rheccrseah at an Einglsh uvnseriity it dnesot mtaetr in what oderr the leretts in aa wrod are the olny itpenormt tihng is taht fisrt and last letter is at the rhgit pclae The rest can be aa total mess and you can sltil raed it wuhotit porlebm This is bsuceae we do not raed every lteetr by it self but the wrod as aa wlohe

PROGRAMMING PROJECT.
This would be a lot better if they kept the letter positions for big/little letters and kept all the up/ down or round letters together.
maybe used shapes for pairs of letters.. eg: el <--> d

round = a c e o r s u x z
up / down = m n r u v w x

d <--> round + l/t/f
b k <--> l/t/f + round
also p q g

Or just measure the length of flats between the letters that poke up / down and whether the letters in between are round or have vertical or diagonal strokes..


Interesting to note that when printing started all the letters had little squiggly things (esp. g) these were supposed to make it easier to ID the letter...

sod

ese ym sgi

Selik

Oh Dear....

It does seem like some people have a little too much free time on their hands... :rolleyes:

halenger

Originally posted by Giles
Oh Dear....
It does seem like some people have a little too much free time on their hands... :rolleyes:

Just a lil bit too much but that still really rocks. Really interesting reading-if your head don't hurt too much afterwards!!

tman

Originally posted by sod
ese ym sgi

ehm, you seem to be missing the point.
the first & last letters have to be the same as the original words.
your post & sig is just a jumbled mess

Lord Nikon

I like jumbly stuff.

Strangely enough, it's 5am and I could read that sentence really easy.