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> There's an interesting effect where you can take some text and, for each word longer than ~5 letters [...] I think you're referring to this (dubbed "Typoglyc
by ratrocket 5y ago
> There's an interesting effect where you can take some text and, for each word longer than ~5 letters [...]
I think you're referring to this (dubbed "Typoglycemia"):
> Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are [...]
It's sort of true (although there was never any research at Cambridge that anyone has been able to unearth), but it's way more limited that "any word longer than 5 characters". This is a good explanation of it (arbitrary link found after a search):
https://www.sciencealert.com/word-jumble-meme-first-last-letters-cambridge-typoglycaemia https://www.sciencealert.com/word-jumble-meme-first-last-let...
People seem to want it to be universally true, though. It's for sure an interesting phenomenon (and meta-phenomenon).
- carapace 5y agoAh! Well met! Thank you for digging that up and posting it.