#30802 - warsong - Sat Dec 04, 2004 11:37 pm
"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? It only works if you are literate.
#30811 - tepples - Sun Dec 05, 2004 2:18 am
Counter-example:
Anidroccg to crad cniyrrag lcitsiugnis planoissefors at an uemannd, utisreviny in Bsitirh Cibmuloa, and crartnoy to the duoibus cmials of the ueticnd rcraeseh, a slpmie, macinahcel ioisrevnn of ianretnl cretcarahs araepps sneiciffut to csufnoe the eadyrevy oekoolnr.
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According to card carrying linguistics professionals at an unnamed, university in British Columbia, and contrary to the dubious claims of the uncited research, a simple, mechanical inversion of internal characters appears sufficient to confuse the everyday onlooker.
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-- Where is he?
-- Who?
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-- I think he moved to Tilwick.
#30821 - DiscoStew - Sun Dec 05, 2004 6:13 am
Hey, why dno't we jsut tpye out ecah and ervey psot taht we mkae in tihs mneanr, so taht wveehenr smoonee tiers to raed tehm, tehy cna't beusace it kdina lkoos epytircnc. Tehn aigan, I dno't wnat to snepd erxta tmie dcytnipreg ecah msagsee mlsyef, puls it rlely gtes hrad wehn yvo'ue got a wrod lkie lcitsiugnis or planoissefors ecyteprnd.
Hey, why don't we just type out each and every post that we make in this manner, so that whenever someone tries to read them, they can't because it kinda looks encryptic. Then again, I don't want to spend extra time decrypting each message myself, plus it really gets hard when you've got a word like linguistics or professionals encrypted.
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#30830 - keldon - Sun Dec 05, 2004 9:21 am
I tinhk taht gaammrr has a lot to paly in tihs aellws. If you use poor gaammrr it is seieommts diclffiut to raed it wehn the wdros are wierttn poerply. Aarpt form taht and a few uiaiamlfnr wrdos, a lot of waht teelpps was saying was uaeannsblddrte.
And as salng has sowhn, ceonxtt can aollw you to flluy uarsenntdd a seecnnte wtih key wrdos reeomvd or raeacpld wtih a wrod neevr hraed bfroee.
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I that grammar has a lot to play in this aswell. If you use poor grammar it is sometimes difficult to read when the words are written properly. Apart from that and a few unfamiliar words, a lot of what tepples was saying was understandable.
And as slang has shown, context can allow you to fully understand a sentence with key words removed or replaced with a word never heard before.
#30848 - SimonB - Sun Dec 05, 2004 2:55 pm
When Lord Graga sees this you'd better run!
Simon
#30849 - sgeos - Sun Dec 05, 2004 3:00 pm
It would be nifty if somebody made functions to scramble words in sentences like this. =P
somebody -> s??????y (random scramble)
somebody -> sdobemoy (mechanical inversion)
-Brendan
#30850 - tepples - Sun Dec 05, 2004 3:38 pm
http://www.jwz.org/hacks/scrmable.pl
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-- Where is he?
-- Who?
-- You know, the human.
-- I think he moved to Tilwick.
#30856 - sgeos - Sun Dec 05, 2004 4:44 pm
Now all we need is a perl interperter for the GBA... =)
I'm working on writing these functions in C.
-Brendan
#30859 - keldon - Sun Dec 05, 2004 5:07 pm
This stuff is quite funny/ironic when you think about it. It's the reason why it's so hard to proof read. Even more so when you know what the sentences are supposed to be because you automatically convert it.
And then there's the "fcuk"(French Connections UK) clothing range. I can't tell you one time when I've looked at it and thought of it as f.c.u.k; especially when their tops have sentences on them like, "I just love to fc...".
#30887 - sgeos - Sun Dec 05, 2004 8:54 pm
Done. It's a VBA binary that spits silliness to debug console.
http://granicus.if.org/~sgeos/misc_post/wordmix.zip
-Brendan