Word Wise

[trickykitty]

I've seen this many times, but still get a kick out of it whenever I see it. I'd like to actually figure the thing out from a cognitive standpoint, but that is a task very low on my list of to-do items.

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.

Here's a quiz. Take the word "ghoti". This word represents a common word in the English language and can be phonetically pronounced. What is it and why?

Comments

[smokedamage.livejournal.com]

correct about the chinese thing.

consider this

preboulpy

changing the orientation of the letters in this case rotating them 180 clockwise has changed the word to where it is unrecognisable.

We recognise words as shapes as well as the sequence of letters. Even though the shapes are arbitrary we have come to recognise them as having meaning. STOP. GO. WALK. CD-ROM. without even recognising these words we recognise them iconically.

Order of the words will effect changes in the meaning of the sentence since english is heavily reliant of word-order unlike a lot of other languages.

[trickykitty.livejournal.com]

I may have to use preboulepy as a secret operative name some time. Pretty creative. I never knew that letters could be so twisted that way.