Reading Meme

[gracie_musica]

Can you read this? Only 43 people on livejournal can.

i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I wuas 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.

Thhe rset can be a taotl mses and yhou can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huuamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs rpsoet it.

ONLY REPOST IF YOU COULD READ THE ABOVE. Please update the number at the header to include yourself.

Actually it's more then 4, if you take into account the fact that the people who saw/can read will post, but they're only taking themselves into account... not each other.

Comments

[ickaimp.livejournal.com]

I can read it.
Could read it the first time that it showed up on my f-list.

But it kinda reminds me of this article here.

And that really kinda scares me... ^^;;

[ickaimp.livejournal.com]

Actually... query.
How many of the people who can read it are dyslectic and are used to switching their letters around and so automatically adjust?

M'slightly dyslectic, although it's mostly in speech, not reading or writing. ^^;;

Although the numbering thing confuses me too.... *scratches head* Say three people on your f-list can read it, so you now have three people who are number #44, then two on one person's f-list, one on another's and five on the third's... that's eight people who are #45...

Their numbering scale doesn't make sense! @_@;;

[gracie-musica.livejournal.com]

*laughs* The numbering scale messed me up too, actually.

I'm not dyslexic, but I had to say it aloud to understand what was being said.

And the English Major in me was dying. *laghs*

[deerlike.livejournal.com]

Agreed, I tend towards dyslexic speech -- mostly when I'm really flustered or excited and my tongue trips over syllables, switching their order or some such thing.

I like to think that I could read this because I concentrated very closely and could make out the semblance of the word based on the letters that were presented to me. Ironically, I've always been crap at anagrams, so I think it's just the built-in spellchecker I possess (I always edit my friends' papers for these typographical/grammatical errors). I seem to remember an odd habit of mine from my younger years, where I would learn to spell words by sounding out the syllables as they were spelt (rather than by their actual pronunciations) -- I'm not sure if this is a dyslexic habit, or simply the way most "readers" learn vocabulary & context. It's not auditory, it's very visual, and what we see dictates what we hear.

[ickaimp.livejournal.com]

It's not auditory, it's very visual, and what we see dictates what we hear.

That makes sense... It was kinda like disabling character recgonition in my head to be able to read it... if I actually attempt to focus on the words and letters, it doesn't make sense.

After the first two sentances, it wasn't a problem. Wouldn't wanna read a whole story like this, but it wasn't terribly hard to read. *scratches head*

Um... does that make sense?

[gracie-musica.livejournal.com]

That is scary as hell.

[baka-gaijin.livejournal.com]

oooh! I've seen this somewhere before and lost the link! Isn't it amazing?? Thank you for posting!

[deeryofan.livejournal.com]

The scary thing is: I'm not a native speaker and could still read the whole thing like any other normal text. O.o - So, that means, either I'm a genius or just really very very weird... *blinks*

[gracie-musica.livejournal.com]

There's a fine line between those two things. I say you're both. ^__^

A good weird. *laughs*