[HPFGU-OTChatter] wwo tihs is so cool! etiher taht or I'M vrey sad

[Iggy McSnurd]

> Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosnt mttaer in
> waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, olny taht the frist and lsat
> ltteres are at the rghit pcleas. The rset can be a toatl mses
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Iggy here:

 I think I actually successfully disproved this in a letter I had replied to
of this nature sent to me by my mom by pointing out that it depends on how
common the words are, the length of the word, and the context.  In other
words, it only works if we have a strong chance of knowing the words we're
reading by context in the first place.

(I did this by listing words in a sentence like June's above... and then by
taking a series of long words plucked at random and completely rearranging
all but the first and last letters.  Even *I* needed a key to read those,
and I was the one who wrote them.)

Iggy McSnurd