Gremlin wrote:
] The phaomnneil 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.
]
] Fcuknig amzanig, huh?

thats really cool, and in line with everything I've thought about the way we inderstand language...

back when I used to be really really into AI programming (before I got so tired of writing lexers and DB's that I gave it up) I modeled a system of mine on similar grounds, where I had it understand groups of words and not try to get each word on its own unless it needed to, like "leave me alone" doesnt mean literally "go away and leave me by myself" usually, it just means "quit it", it even had a simple reputation system in it for sorting "facts"...

This finding would tend to be inline with what people have thought about pictorial languages like chinese (im sure there is another word for that), in that once you actually learn to read it, reading and comprehension of what you've read is much faster because your brain is going strait to idea from symbol, not letters...

anyways, enough rambling...cool post...

--Mike

RE: naet ltilte ticrk!