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Posted by Underdog on Tue Dec 6th at 3:30pm 2005

Typoglycemia

Makes you wonder a bit, doesn't it?

There are quite a few links via Google as well.




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Posted by Andrei on Tue Dec 6th at 5:15pm 2005

Interesting - I read that fluently.




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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Tue Dec 6th at 5:46pm 2005

I've seen that before and it's really quite astonishing.

On the other side of the coin, sometimes people misspel 1 word and it renders a sentence unreadable.




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Posted by fishy on Tue Dec 6th at 6:24pm 2005

remove the correct grammar and capitalization, and i'd imagine it wouldn't work quite so well. some font sizes or colour schemes can screw with my ability to read fluently, due to some damage to my retina just right of centre. it causes the letters slightly to the right of where i'm reading to colapse into nothingness sometimes, and then reappear as i scan past them. it can be a nuisance, but the doc says my eyes are in better condition than most, and i'm just unlucky to have this blind spot in the exact place that i do. hmmph...


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Posted by Myrk- on Tue Dec 6th at 6:56pm 2005

True fishy, still fun to read though. They should make books like that!


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Posted by satchmo on Tue Dec 6th at 7:00pm 2005

iveseenthatbeforebut someof theposts aremuchworse than nothavingtheproperpunctuation. Things justallrunintooneanother. Damnit'shardtotypelikethiswithout the spaces.


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Posted by French Toast on Tue Dec 6th at 9:13pm 2005

Without

1. Grammar

2. Punctuation

3. Keeping the first and last letters in place

It would fail miserably. Those are things that posts we speak of lack.

And also, who the hell really wants to read that? Spell correctly!




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Posted by Nickelplate on Tue Dec 6th at 9:33pm 2005

Actually, the sub-title of this thread needs to be "Those who like to pick on typos, pay attention." The word "whom" is reserved for Direct object use only.

To rememer where to use who and where to use whom, remeber this sentence: "Who is correcting whom?"

Who is the person doing, and whom is the person being done to.




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Posted by Forceflow on Tue Dec 6th at 11:00pm 2005

I wnat the crihsmtas srnaks ! ! !



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Posted by French Toast on Tue Dec 6th at 11:47pm 2005

Faer is the msot sacry gmae I hvae eevr plyaed.

And you konw how tehre is the Sierra lgoo at the sratt of Hlaf-Lfie 1? I toghut Valve mdae the gmae?!




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Posted by Crono on Wed Dec 7th at 12:30am 2005

Sierra is a no longer existent distributer (Owned be Vivendi).


Blame it on Microsoft, God does.



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Posted by FatStrings on Wed Dec 7th at 3:07am 2005

ive seen this before, actually it got emailed to all of my high school english teachers and they showed it to us
by the way satchmo, i read your post with ease
the only thing that gives me trouble reading at a normal speed is 1337, i can't stand it when i see whole paragraphs written in 1337




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Posted by French Toast on Wed Dec 7th at 3:31am 2005

? quote:
Sierra is a no longer existent distributer (Owned be Vivendi).


But Sierra is all over F.E.A.R...




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Posted by Mephs on Wed Dec 7th at 5:29am 2005

Yeah I saw this a good while ago, I love these kinds of things. One thing I noticed is that spellcheckers don't do that good a job on correcting it, despite all the letters being present, its something that could surely be used to improve them...

Also I'm amazed that those ever improving spambots haven't incorporated it somehow to get round filters...

*runs to the patent office and sets fire to the thread. MY idea, MINE!




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Posted by Crono on Wed Dec 7th at 6:01am 2005

One of the first thing a spam filter looks for is an abundance of mis-spelled words.


Blame it on Microsoft, God does.



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Posted by SpoolE on Wed Dec 7th at 10:18am 2005

Ah, I read that about 5 years ago, lol! Its just psychological - your brain reads the word as a whole.



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Posted by Mephs on Wed Dec 7th at 12:19pm 2005

? quote:
Its just psychological

Wow, you make it sound so simple, professor.

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One of the first thing a spam filter looks for is an abundance of mis-spelled words.

Quiet you.
I'm still sure there must be some kind of serious use for it concerning beating computers. Who knows? Perhaps Al-Qaeda emails are full of such typos...
Bet it doesn't work as well in japanese, btw.




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Posted by ishbog on Wed Dec 7th at 9:02pm 2005

yaeh, ive seen taht bferoe. in an eiaml, of cursoe.


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Posted by French Toast on Wed Dec 7th at 10:52pm 2005

Hmm, the eaiml part confused me. I think it has to be e-mial.




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Posted by Underdog on Thu Dec 8th at 1:54am 2005

? quoting Nickelplate

To remember where to use who and where to use whom, remember this sentence: "Who is correcting whom?"

If you can leave a letter out, then I can add one if I feel like it. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_wink.gif">




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