Can You Raed Tihs? 997
An aoynmnuos raeedr sumbtis: "An interesting tidbit from Bisso's blog site: Scrambled words are legible as long as first and last letters are in place. Word of mouth has spread
to other blogs, and articles as well.
From the languagehat site: '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 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. ceehiro.'
Jamie Zawinski has also written a perl script to convert normal text into text where letters excluding the first and last are scrambled."
Yes, a cat's got my tongue, OK? (Score:5, Funny)
Actually, does this work well with letter pairs like, "th ch wh sh qu?" I forget what those are called.
At Lsat! (Score:5, Funny)
Grammer Nazi (Score:1, Funny)
I think this should be "istlef". At least the capitalize the first letter of each sentance. I can't read those lower case comments.
--
From a wanna-be grammer nazi.
In the Sivoet Uonin (Score:4, Funny)
Hangs head in shame (Score:1, Funny)
Re:At Lsat! (Score:5, Funny)
As if that's stopped anyone on Slashdot before.
holy.. (Score:5, Funny)
FINALLY (Score:5, Funny)
Nwo, Teh Gebalrd Ptsos (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Don't thank a teacher (Score:2, Funny)
Microsoft calls that (Score:5, Funny)
In Svoiet Rsusai (Score:1, Funny)
So in other words... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:At Lsat! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:At Lsat! (Score:3, Funny)
Hehemmm. Taht solhud be: As if tath's stpoped aonnye on Sasldoht boeefr.
Take that 9th grade English teacher.... (Score:5, Funny)
Eggs (Score:4, Funny)
Re:tahn, you fool! (Score:2, Funny)
Yes I could read it but... (Score:5, Funny)
Don't ever do this again, Slashdot.
Cool (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Hmmm (Score:1, Funny)
Excuse? (Score:3, Funny)
The bset prat (Score:5, Funny)
# Coyprgiht (C) 2003 Jamie Zawinski
#
# Premssioin to use, cpoy, mdoify, drusbiitte, and slel this stafowre and its
# docneimuatton for any prsopue is hrbeey ganrted wuihott fee, prveodid taht
# the avobe cprgyioht noicte appaer in all coipes and that both taht
# cohgrypit noitce and tihs premssioin noitce aeppar in suppriotng
# dcoumetioantn. No rpeersneatiotns are made about the siuatbliity of tihs
# srofawte for any puorpse. It is provedid "as is" wiuotht exerpss or
# ilmpied waanrrty.
Re:Yes, a cat's got my tongue, OK? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Yes, a cat's got my tongue, OK? (Score:4, Funny)
What?!? No "Frist Psot"? (Score:5, Funny)
Come on, you slacker trolls!
(ethighy-ftifh psot!)
ynlo gcramblins eht tirsf dna tasl setterl (Score:5, Funny)
This is Slashdot... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:What?!? No "Frist Psot"? (Score:5, Funny)
(tihs siht is too mcuh fun! sotp me!)
Re:Here you go (Score:2, Funny)
Re:At Lsat! (Score:5, Funny)
As if tath's stpoped aonnye on Sasldoht boeefr.
You cna't eevn get the fekucd up snleiplg rghit!!!
SPAM?!?!?!? (Score:5, Funny)
ELNRAGE YUOR PNEIS!!!
on the subject lines of emails received? How would any of the pattern matching anti-spam methods out there deal with this one?
And, we just gave them the tool do use!
-Ben
Round 2 (Score:1, Funny)
See the loveli lakes
And for those of you who remember murf.com... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:At Lsat! (Score:2, Funny)
Die speilnlg Tllor, die!!
Someone has to say it... (Score:2, Funny)
yeah... (Score:5, Funny)
impruvd inglis (Score:5, Funny)
The European Union commissioners have announced that agreement has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility.
As part of the negotiations, the British government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five-year phased plan for what will be known as EuroEnglish (Euro for short).
In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c". Sertainly, sivil servants will resieve this news with joy. Also, the hard "c" will be replaced with "k". Not only will this klear up konfusion, but typewriters kan have one less letter.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced by "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20 per sent shorter.
In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent "e"s in the languag is disgrasful, and they would go.
By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" by "z" and "w" by " v".
During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou", and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.
After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru.
Re:Yes, a cat's got my tongue, OK? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:So in other words... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Yes, a cat's got my tongue, OK? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:SPAM?!?!?!? (Score:5, Funny)
Compression? (Score:3, Funny)
Does this work only for English? Or only for Romance languages? Or can we find a similar scheme for any language?
Re:What?!? No "Frist Psot"? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The bset prat (Score:1, Funny)
#
# Premssioin to use, cpoy, mdoify, drusbiitte, and slel this stafowre and its
# docneimuatton for any prsopue is hrbeey ganrted wuihott fee,
He didn't scramble the word "fee" very well...
Re:holy.. (Score:2, Funny)
FCUK.COM
Please Choose Your Screen Size
>FCUKSMALL
>FCUKLARGE
Automatically redirecting to fcuklarge in ten seconds
Re:At Lsat! (Score:3, Funny)
We use short words (Score:2, Funny)
Want me to scramble this?
Re:ugh (Score:1, Funny)
The Definitive Misspelling Post (Score:4, Funny)
<sigh>
Re:At Lsat! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:ugh (Score:1, Funny)
You lose.
Rmiends me of... (Score:5, Funny)
Cna't beileve I was the frist to say it...
Re:Yes, a cat's got my tongue, OK? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:What?!? No "Frist Psot"? (Score:3, Funny)
Come get me RIAA (Score:3, Funny)
Led Zlepneipn - Sriawty to Hvaeen.mp3
hahahahah!!!!!
(applies pearl script to mp3 directory)
Re:What?!? No "Frist Psot"? (Score:5, Funny)
all your bsae are boleng to us
In Seviot Rsuisa Words Srcmable You
Imangie a sbcramled bwelouf ctsuler
Tihs mhigt be big eunogh to hold all my mp3's if I smalrcebd tehm (remmeber that one?)
cehck out this lnik [gaotse.xc].
Did I miss any?
Re:Yes, a cat's got my tongue, OK? (Score:5, Funny)
Thou should forfeit karma, but that is neither here nor there.
Re:ynlo gcramblins eht tirsf dna tasl setterl (Score:3, Funny)
Re:The bset prat (Score:2, Funny)
Re:What?!? No "Frist Psot"? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Yes, a cat's got my tongue, OK? (Score:3, Funny)
Now, where are my reindeer?! (for my sleigh!!)
Signed, der Weihnachtsmann
Re:What?!? No "Frist Psot"? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Yes, a cat's got my tongue, OK? (Score:3, Funny)
They're called dipthongs.
Don't you mean "dgnthpois"? You're right, it doesn't seem to work very well...
Re:Yes, a cat's got my tongue, OK? (Score:3, Funny)
Yes, but those are "ei" pairs.
Re:What?!? No "Frist Psot"? (Score:1, Funny)
2. ???
3. Porift!
bah! real men only need 1 line (Score:3, Funny)
I downloaded the script - the copyright is no good (Score:2, Funny)
Re:At Lsat! (Score:3, Funny)
A sample sentence (Score:4, Funny)
"Tikang garet crae, I septped bihend the gril, and fdnoled her basters"
Um, that is a little hard to read isn't it. Well, ok, I think you're right. Notice "gril" and "basters" in the same sentence, make you think of cooking.
And yes, this statement could be offensive. Well, I'm male. I can't really help it.
Re:bah! real men only need 1 line (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Hmmm (Score:2, Funny)
Argh! VB Flsahbcak!!
Re:Bit of a simplistic article... (Score:2, Funny)
Ironically, this word is very similar to another word...
I am dyslexic (Score:3, Funny)
CmdrTaco? (Score:3, Funny)
There's no need to make up "news" to justify your poor speeling.
Re:bah! real men only need 1 line (Score:1, Funny)
Re:The bset prat (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Hmmm (Score:1, Funny)
New Tool for Spammers (Score:3, Funny)
Binary doesn't work! (Score:2, Funny)
Perl script (Score:1, Funny)
Now I now where the word (Score:1, Funny)