Fascinating... well, at least I think it is...

Have a read of this:

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.

If you have never come across this before, it is an excellent illustration of how the human brain understands the written language. While the first and last letter certainly play a critical part in discerning the word, they can not be the only way we decipher a word. Here is an excellent article that looks a bit more in depth at the phenomenon: http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/~mattd/Cmabrigde/

If you are interested in creating some of your own jumbled text, Jamie Zawinski has written a perl script here that will convert regular text to scrambled yet still readable text.

I got the stuff above from a cool blog I stumbled across here.

Cool how the brain can work like this eh? The http link above goes into far more detail and debates a little more that it's not just the first and last letters but also the shape of the words and such that allows one to be able to read the jumbled sentence. Still, it's interesting however, like most things I write here, totally not related to my work or my list of tasks for the workday so....

Have a great day everyone!

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