Typoglycemia ... a joke?

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dbrad4d

Joined Mar 2005
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Alabama
Believe it or not you can read it ..

I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid Aoccdrnig to rscheearch taem at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Such a cdonition is arppoiately cllaed Typoglycemia :)

Amzanig huh? Yaeh and yuo awlyas thought slpeling was ipmorant.

:roll:
 
Dammmm, I thought I needed a dictionary next to me when I was posting, ( I needed the dictionary to get the right letters so the spell check in the computer had some idea of what I was trying to type ) but that is all history now, I turned off the spell check, like it didnt work anyhow, & am useing the dictionary as a foot rest now , hahaha What a world we live in hahaha, Enjoy, Vince
 
What I do if I don't know how to spell a word is replace it with one I do know how to spell... helps your vocabulary, but not your spelling!
 
Actually, dbrad, and everyone remember this, because this is one of my pet peeves, that's a nice little trick, but that's all it is and here's why. The ONLY reason we know how to read the gibberish you typed is because the PROPER spelling of the words is engraved in our minds as a result of us all pretty much knowing what words are when we see them, even if they are jumbled.

For example, the word "understand." The only reason we know that when you typed the word "uesdnatnrd" that it was understand and not something else is because we know the proper spelling. If there were NO AGREEMENT whatsoever as to spelling, diction, grammar, enunciation, etc., for example, if I decided that I didn't like the spelling of the word "understand" as it now stands and from now on would use these letters in this order, . . .

"gertrude" to signify the word "understand," it would be quite a different situation. When everyone chooses to do their own thing, confusion inevitably results. Unfortunately, that is what is happening in America, and that's why the predictions of Third Worldism and us all living in a Tower of Babel are coming true. Go look in the forum called Generalissimo Fernando's Cantina and Grille, and check out Joe Forte's thread about math education in 2005. It's all too painfully true, as funny as it is.
 
It wasn't really about coming down on dbrad, or anything of the kind. I was contending with Cambridge U.'s statement that this is representative of the awesome power of the human mind. It's not. It's a trick based on the fact that because we know basically what these words look like, because we know how they are SPELLED correctly, or nearly so, that we recognize them.

I believe this is actually a subtle attempt to encourage people not to be able to spell properly anymore, or to even care about it. This is a trend that has been coming on for the past twenty years or so, and is doing great harm to the country, I believe. The post was funny and interesting, but I think the subtle philosophy is part of the whole feel good mentality that has been slowly sweeping the country and changing it since the 60's. You don't have to know how to spell, as long as you can express your thought so that others can understand it.

Math and science skills, proper grammar, good diction, proper spelling, those are all part of what are now being referred to as "outmoded, EuroCentric ways." Those are not my words or my contention, but that of others. I think this Cambridge U. trick is part of that philosophy, that's all. Other than that, I thought it was an interesting bit of humor.
 
ronnie barker was a past master at doing this kind of thing- of the 2 ronnies of bbc fame- but i think maybe it's a little too far off to quote- like rindercella and the prandsome hince
 
Okay, I'll try it this way. It's been going on for a long time, ever since people in the United States started slacking on their spelling. Oh, it really doesn't matter how you spell it if people know what you're saying. :roll:

Okay, you'll all understand when we no longer understand each other. :cryinlaugh:
 
You are correct about the skills slowly being forgotten, not learned, not used, or otherwise disappearing, Bloof. We have learned to accept it and lower our standards.

I see it everyday. My wife is a high school business education teacher and when I look at some of the things that are not taught, or learned, it's really sad. The test for the local law enforcement is at an 8th grade level so that more people can pass the test and they can fill the L.E. positions. How sad is that? I say that about the law enforcement positions because I have personally been in that field. I'm not knocking the people in that vocation. They do a tough job. But having read many police reports written by someone with that level of comprehension, I can say something needs to be done at some level.

We can joke about it, but it is a problem. As lnog as we konw taht we are jkonig and it is not the bset we can do.
 
So I guess I should turn the spell checker back on & get the dictionary off the floor ! Enjoy, Vince :idea:
 
Heck no, Vince. Your posts are so enjoyable no one cares if the spelling is correct. Keep on keeping on ... :lol:
 
Bloof's only partially right on this one

It's true that we can read the misspelled words partly because we know them, but it's not because we were drilled in correct spelling. It's because we are generally familiar with the spelling and are able to read the context of the sentence to generate the word meaning. The result is that a little education in spelling goes a very, very long way. What is needed most is critical reading, research and thinking skills and less attention on surface issues like spelling (which people learn best by doing a lot of reading and writing--for example on discussion boards they like). Did you know that the concept of "correct spelling" didn't even exist until the 1700s (even though writing has been around since 500 BCE)?

Didn't expect to be posting something like this on this forum.
 
That's right, exactly, it's more general than what I said, which is why I phrased it this way:

"The ONLY reason we know how to read the gibberish you typed is because the PROPER spelling of the words is engraved in our minds as a result of us all pretty much knowing what words are when we see them, even if they are jumbled."

With particular attention to this part:

. . . "all pretty much knowing what words are when we see them" . . .

That takes into account those who haven't been stringently schooled in spelling. That's why people who spell "school" as "skool" can get their meaning across, because it's "pretty much" similar so as to convey the proper meaning. I have a hard time getting things across sometimes. Thanks for the better explanation JWG. My two brain cells get tangled up in the blond(e) hair and I go off on tangents that leave people going . . .

:dunno:

Which I guess is even worse than bad spelling. :rotflmao: :cryinlaugh: :cryinlaugh:
 
Right on, Bloof. I'm a blonde too! With touches of gray now.
 
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