Spell Check

[Laureana]

Interesting email..
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The paomnnehil pweor of the hmuan mnid.

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde 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 be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

Amzanig huh?
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[Telaeth Everdark]

Weird..

All right, that was weird. I skimmed it and I could recognise that the words weren't right, but I understood it perfectly. o_0

My boyfriend says it's actually because the brain reads the word in tiny pieces and reassembles it the way it's supposed to be. Apparently it was tried to teach kids how to read in whole words and it was proven to be horrible. (He was taught in that style, and he cannot spell worth a ****. His grandmother, who was a grade school teacher for 40 years, told him about it...