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Most of those words are short though, which means the displacement of a letter from its expected location is not very large. And if you combined typical spellin
by perl4ever 6y ago
Most of those words are short though, which means the displacement of a letter from its expected location is not very large. And if you combined typical spelling errors with the scrambled order, it might be too much to parse. I think it's going to far to suggest letter order has no useful information.
- oehtXRwMkIs 6y agoI just copied and pasted an example, I didn't write it myself. It's true that order of letters do matter more as words get longer. The point is that we don't really read letters. We read words. So I would even argue that written English is basically like Chinese since in both cases you have to recognize the word/character and memorize its pronunciation and meaning. In both scripts you get hints of pronunciation, but in both cases you kind of have to do a lot of memorizing. In the case of English it's because it has no consistent rules or predictability. But then the words aren't really logographic, so I guess we're stuck with the worst of both worlds. No meaning, and very unreliable pronunciation hints.