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[The Trash Heap]

I'm one of the 55. Are You?

Don't even think about using spell check!!!!!!!!

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 rghit 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! if you can raed tihs forwrad it.

ONLY FORWARD IF YOU CAN READ THIS
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[Howie]

YES......... spelling is important if you what people to believe you made it past the 1st grade! American english is made up of several languages, German,Italian, French and now even internet words. Most of our four letter cussing are french words. The education part makes us smart enough to understand the jibberish you wrote.
Chheeeerzzzz!
Howard

[The Trash Heap]

I disagree on two points, Howie.

Book education has nothing to do with recognition of the words in the piece beginning this thread - it's something to do with the programming and/or hard wiring of 55 % of the brains of English readers. I'd love to know if those literate in other languages have the same capability to comprehend those foreign words when similarly scrambled.

The other thing is that bit about four-lettered swear words in English. Many more of those have Anglo-Saxon roots than French. I always wondered why people would follow an outburst with "Pardon my French," and resented it for obvious reasons. Outside of "merde," name one French cuss word, especially one that has been loaned to English and is spelled with four letters.
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[Capt Mike Singleterry]

Hey Johnny that's pretty cool.....But I guess I've got a real problem it looked to me like everything was spelled correctly On top of that I could even read it upside down after I printed it. Uhmmmmmm.

Ok after reading Howie's post am I as dumb as I think I am or am I educated? How the cr*p can I figure that out? (Pardon my French)

Mike

[Howie]

Statiscs, poll's type guessing is way out of the realm of science now days. Three hundred million people in the USA. That they guess. Getting a test done to show how are brains might be wired or how they get wired or results is and cannot be done is bogus. Less than .0001% of is no grounds to make a theory of anything to proove scientific results.
Prooving any physical human adnormalities takes too long also. We change faster than they can test and come up with a theory. Children are much smarter in the USA than 50 years ago.

50 years ago the papers headlines were filled that the planet was going back into a ice age! One vocano exploding can end the global warming theory in three days and we will all be staving. Just like 300 years ago!

Years ago some villages demaded by law all it's citizen's drink beer only becaues water was too dangerous!

Sodomy was aginsed the law becaues sheep had certain STA's. To stop the spreading of these sicknesses in humans.

My point.........you still need waders for your brain to wade through all the BS. Education helps!

Cheers!
Howard

[texmike]

As a high school teacher you have no idea how poor spelling in education. The kids are not taught in the early grades to read. To much problem and god forbid they learn to read a tape. Can't do fractions, yes I'm a shop teacher. And yes I could read this. Hmmmmmmm That splains it Rickey.

[Howie]

[texasbeachmaster]

teach and have taught 6 thru 12 grades in science math computers and every other class with the exception of P.E. and English. I have been instructed to ignore spelling and grammar errors in grading. Therefore I can read this and understand it, however as long as everyone gets to pass, no one is to be unhappy at school, and the only concern is the TAKS test. What can the public expect? we now are entertainers and friends to unruly ignorant children who have no respect for anything,anyone, not educators, or there parents,nor the property of others.
Therefore I, fish and spend as much time as I can on the beach, sharks are easier to handle than the kids we try to teach.

[ccbobber]

when referring to the students parents, the correct word is "their" not there. Their shows a relationship. there shows a place or direction. so much for teachers. johnny, i could read it. who cares where the cuss words came from if they are used correctly. even with spell check, you must at the very least be close to the correct word to have it work. i'd rather be there fishing for their bigger relatives. so there.
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[Howie]

My teacher friend told me he spent years learning to become a teacher. He taught english in high school for several years. All to get other people kids to utter words more than, duh......... what? Then came Homer Simpson!
My friend now works at a gold mine in Alaska.
Cheers!
Howard

[medic6]

I have seen this report before and I had no problem reading the paragraphs that time nor this one. The kicker is, this time I printed it and handed it to my 16 year old son that has dyslexia and asked him to try. In less than 3 seconds, I got "What the heck is this?". I then handed it to my 9 year old 4th grader that test 6th grade level on reading and she was able to translate about 85% in less than a minute. I can agree with the hard wiring of the brain.
I would also imagine that it plays into being able to speed read and the comprehension of what is read at any pace. This would be do to the fact that not only are words hard wired into the brain but also word frases. Also that once you get started reading garbled spelling as such, that it gets easier as you progress due to the comprehension of the subject matter and the brain expecting what word will follow after the recognition of the first. But that is only a theory of mine. No hard facts at this time.
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[Big John]

[Howie]

TrashHeap wrote this thread about a Camridge University study. It says the human mind can read a sentence, even if the letters of a word are in the wrong place.

I disagree. Education has taught us right and wrong spelling ( Or any subject ) and how to desipher it and how to correct it. Education wires the brain to learn. And with 300million just in the USA the percentages for this theory is makes it worthless. Someone just wanted to show why they got a grant.

I also disbelieve these type of studies becaues of the percentage of error in this type of study. Most scientific studies have proven to be always wrong over time. Such as the study a few years ago saying we are going into a new ice age. Now they say we are warming. But history proves our earth has warmed and gone cold by all the varitables. Volcanos, earthquakes, meteor's all can change our weather overnight! Want proof...the earth was so warm that there is petroleum (dead tropical animals and plants) in the artic circle. Get it? They just put out more BS.

Man thinks he's the most important thing on this planet, just wait till she farts!


Cheers!
Howard

[rabbit]

Great johnny, I had no problem reading that and I can also spell.

desipher should be decipher.
becaues should be because.

So much for the education theory
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