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[brooksmoses]

This quote was just posted to rec.arts.sf.composition (Citation: Message ID lm87mv821apu2it9egrhu2kvh6ddjvg7i2@4ax.com, posted by Wildepad):

"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 the 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."    -- Rowland Croucher

I am finding the apparent truth of that statement at least slightly disturbing.

Comments

[kiya]

My dear competitor will, in fact, go to great lengths for a joke.

Check the links.

I really am quite fond of gtst.

[brooksmoses]

That is indeed rather amusing, yes. (Although I don't see anything new at the first link; am I missing something?)

[kiya]

Not my links; gtst links.

Light dawns over Marblehead....

[brooksmoses]

But there weren't any ... oh, those links.

Er, yes. I even saw that when I first read it, and pondered that I'd have likely done what gtst did with them, but it didn't occur to me to check and see if gtst actually had done it.

[novalis.livejournal.com]

JWZ wrote a Perl script to do this for you (http://www.jwz.org/hacks/scrmable.pl). Yes, read it. Laugh.

[redbird]

It works. It slowed me down a bit, but it works.

The brain is a marvelous pattern-matching organ.

[oldsma.livejournal.com]

For better or worse.

MAO