stefanlasiewski's Journal: Fun brain tricks

Acocdrnig to an elgnsih unviesitry sutdy the oredr of letetrs in a wrod dosen't mttaer, the olny thnig thta's iopmrantt is that the frsit and lsat ltteer of eevry word is in the crcreot ptoision. The rset can be jmbueld and one is stlil able to raed the txet wiohtut dclftfuiiy.

If you can read the text above, your brain is demonstrating the remarkable human ability to force patterns on even jumbled messes

I don't usually pass on these chain emails, but this one blows me away.

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[heliocentric]

Check out this JE [slashdot.org].

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[stefanlasiewski]

I am a salsdhot etodtir in training.

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[subgeek]

taht is one of the fnnueist pstos i've raed in smoe time.

Great.

[Elwood P Dowd]

Now your chain email got posted to the front page of slashdot.

I wonder how many chain emails get that honor.

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[stefanlasiewski]

I guess the slashdot editors are training to be ME!

At least we know this chain mail isn't a hoax...

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[Elwood P Dowd]

Well, it's not a hoax, but it's really old research. They brought it up in freshman psych, five years ago.