iblis wrote:I read about this on September 15th, via /.'s article, Can You Raed Tihs?

It's pretty cool, and IMNSHO, rather accurate; especially regarding digraphs. Of course, it doesn't work quite so well when you start breaking up complex phonemes (e.g.: ordered, interdependent phonemes such as "eau", and "ough". Argh!) , diphthongs, and the like.

Oh well.

Oh, and I love the hell out of this text scrmabling perl script.

Yes, I have a lot of questions about it - for instance, is it limited to a set number of characters? I know that I read somewhere a long time ago that phone numbers have 7 characters because that's the longest that the human mind can easily memorize. Our area code is considered a separate number entirely. Are we limited like that with recognizing words?

Can we read scrambled words longer than that that contain repeating letters, such as "bookkeeper", more easily than longer words that don't?

What about misspelled words - words that we can recognize, even misspelled, because all the other letters are in the right order?

I really need to look at those articles.

The Stormstress wrote:Soundz 2 me like sum1 else iz lookin' 4 a "spanky"... 2 bad ur NOT my typ!

Nope, not about you, sorry. It's just a subject I'm interested in.

Two of the best retorts to that bit about scrambling that I've found so far~

The serious one, from [url=http://www.bisso.com/ujg_archives/000228.html]Uncle Jazzbeau's Gallimaufrey:
Linguistics, philosophy, and politics[/url] (it's long, so I linked it) and the funny one, from a reply on Slashdot:

impruvd inglis (Score:5, Funny)
by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 15, @07:43PM (#6969570) I like the proposed UN English language modifications to make English easier for everyone to learn!

The European Union commissioners have announced that agreement has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, the British government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five-year phased plan for what will be known as EuroEnglish (Euro for short).

In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c". Sertainly, sivil servants will resieve this news with joy. Also, the hard "c" will be replaced with "k". Not only will this klear up konfusion, but typewriters kan have one less letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced by "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20 per sent shorter.

In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent "e"s in the languag is disgrasful, and they would go.

By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" by "z" and "w" by " v".

During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou", and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.

After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru.

JaNell wrote:All of this might also explain a lot about dyslexia.

I am rather badly dyslexia thats why my typing and spell suck, It takes a while, I usely end up with words backwards, or the letters turned around.

Malakelle wrote:

JaNell wrote:All of this might also explain a lot about dyslexia.

I am rather badly dyslexia thats why my typing and spell suck, It takes a while, I usely end up with words backwards, or the letters turned around.

I would be doing all that too, for the same reason, if I hadn't gone to a school that drilled us in grammar, spelling, sentence composition, and the like. I went to a wonderful small town school (ask Pan). If you make yourself do it right long enough, it'll stick. Mostly.

Moved to GothGeek.

Anything that was on slashdot pretty much automatically qualifies for the move.

DarkVader wrote:Moved to GothGeek.

Anything that was on slashdot pretty much automatically qualifies for the move.

I have to agree. This subject is a bit too intelligent for the dumpster.

Of course, I don't really mind, since the dumpster is like 85% of what I read.

iblis wrote:I have to agree. This subject is a bit too intelligent for the dumpster.

Of course, I don't really mind, since the dumpster is like 85% of what I read.

no, iblis... the dumpster is 85% posts made by you, so it's what you write, not what you read...