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Snopes doesn't definitely prove or disprove it but I don't think there ever was a paper that was published. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/can-you-raed-tihs/
by sushid 6y ago
Snopes doesn't definitely prove or disprove it but I don't think there ever was a paper that was published. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/can-you-raed-tihs/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/can-you-raed-tihs/
It's also nearly impossible to read longer words so I doubt it. e.g. Cigdrbame Uietisrnvy is nearly impossible to read.
- iamacyborg 6y agoI think for native speakers deciphering that that says Cambridge University isn't all that difficult and doesn't require much mental energy.
- StavrosK 6y agoIf you were primed for it by the earlier post, sure, but if you saw it out of the blue I doubt you'd know what it sefgiiind.
- iamacyborg 6y agoIt's not hard to understand what it signifies though.
- kaesar14 6y agoMost likely but doesn't that prove the point that reading is ultimately heavily context based and provided enough context you can distort the letters themselves to some absurd lengths and still preserve meaning?
- StavrosK 6y agoSure, writing has very low entropy, but the claim that you can easily tell what a word is as long as you preserve the first and last letters seems false.
- fdw 6y agoI think an important part is that ascenders and descenders are in approximately the same position as before.
- playpause 6y agoLonger words seem to work OK if you add another constraint: keep all letters with ascenders and descenders in roughly the same relative order, eg, Cmbadigre Uisrevitny. Also, it works much better in a whole paragraph.
- B1FF_PSUVM 6y ago> Cigdrbame Uietisrnvy Sounds like a Welsh-Russian couple ...