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Had no problems reading this even as a non-native speaker. This is similar to the case when you mess around with "inner" letters of the word, but leave first an
by konart 9y ago
Had no problems reading this even as a non-native speaker. This is similar to the case when you mess around with "inner" letters of the word, but leave first and the last ones in their places (I've read about this experiment 10 years ago maybe). While the word changes - you still able to read it in text (other words are transformed too in this case obviously).
- agumonkey 9y agoIt's true that first and last letters are huge hints. With context it makes for a shorter space search.
- ptero 9y agoI had the same experience (also a non-native speaker). Being a non-native speaker might actually help -- when learning English I had to learn to guess meaning of unknown words when reading quickly and I think that skill is still with me (possibly as a detriment). While I suspect in the end I can understand the dyslexic text just as well as a normal one, reading this required significantly higher concentration and was much slower.
- omginternets 9y agoIt worked for me until I stumbled upon a word I didn't know: typoglycemia.
- TeMPOraL 9y agoI had no problems reading this as a non-native speaker... until I hit first advanced medical term. If you know the words, then reading is easy. But I can see how it can seriously disturb the process of learning new or difficult words.
- richrichardsson 9y ago"Dyslexia is characterized by difficulty with LEARNING to read fluently". You may have read it, but you didn't understand it!
- Cthulhu_ 9y agoThat's the crux of the matter IMO, most people reading this page already learned how to read; the brain takes shortcuts in recognising words (like the garbled inner part of words as another commenter mentioned). But if your brain isn't able to develop those shortcuts (due to dyslexia), yeah. Try teaching a child to read with a page like this.
- walshemj 9y agoErr not all dyslexics have problems with reading I am Dyslexic and had a reading age of 20 at 11 :-) Writing and spelling however I am very bad at
- konart 9y agoI'm pretty sure that title was changed since the original posting. The original one was something like: "Try to read it". That's pretty much it.
- Broken_Hippo 9y agoThat's seriously not true for folks with mild dyslexia. That's why folks don't necessarily find out until adults: no actual difficulty learning to read, but sometimes it results in weird things that weren't picked up on when we were kids. Spelling, for example. Getting left and right mixed up. Certain behavioral traits. More trouble with reading as one gets older and has more to read and/or difficult texts.
- danellis 9y agoFunny thing: I keep getting left and right mixed up since I moved from the UK to the US. It's as though my subconscious understanding of "left" was always "the side cars drive on". Flipping that also flipped the words in my head.
- Broken_Hippo 9y agoThat is quite funny. I'm pretty glad I didn't suddenly get that when I switched countries. Of course, I switched up the two before I did so. I learned to feel for my heartbeat on my left side to tell them apart.