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Can You Read This?

Only great minds can read this
This is weird, but quite interesting!

Cna yuo raed
tihs?
Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.

i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal
pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the
frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and
you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not
raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh?
yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

Spanish translation to parallel this reading game, anyone?

I'd like to see how my mind handles that challenge. :)

By Portena on Dec 8, 2008, 19:32 in Off Topic.

Lcacique says on Dec 8, 2008, 20:11:

My mind would not be able to handle it in Spanish. But it would be interesting to see if this applied to the Spanish language as well.

"Es fácil vivir con los ojos cerrados interpretando todo lo que se ve mal..." ~ J. Lennon

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sloopskipper says on Dec 9, 2008, 04:16:

Spanish language Nat Geo often ran a, maybe, 30 second spot with jumbled Spanish, saying that the mind could process it, as long as first and last letters of words were correct.

I've not been able to find it on internet.

Seems that some people think "everybody's outa step but me".

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Peter (Moderator) (Trustee board) (Dev team) (☼Travelguide writer) says on Dec 9, 2008, 07:50:

I don't think I could do it in Spanish :) I guess it'd be a good test of how well you master a language :)

Poor but snappy

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sloopskipper says on Dec 9, 2008, 08:03:

My Spanish is not very good, but I was able understand that Nat Geo spot in jumbled Spanish.

Anybody else has seen it?

Seems that some people think "everybody's outa step but me".

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sloopskipper says on Dec 9, 2008, 08:41:

Is that Portuguese?

Also in English:

Seems that some people think "everybody's outa step but me".

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ColombianoGringo (Moderator) (Trustee board) (☼Travelguide writer) says on Dec 9, 2008, 08:49:

Thanks Sloop. For a second, I thought about going to the trouble of translating it, but then I came to my senses.

It's interesting to see that it works equally well in Spanish. I find it hard to believe that only 55% of people can read that.

I'm so hip, I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis.

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sloopskipper says on Dec 9, 2008, 09:05:

Me too, unless I thought that I understood it better than I did.

At first I thought the second one was Spanish until I saw "palavra".

Seems that some people think "everybody's outa step but me".

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