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Smoozle

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 3:48 am
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My mom gets tons of chainletters and forwards, and always sends them to me. sweatdrop When I checked my email this morning, this is what was waiting for me:

Quote:
Subject: Fw: Spell Check???



> Subject: Spell Check???
> Don't even think about using spell check!!!!!!!!
> fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too. Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny
> 55 plepoe out of 100 can.
> i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The
> phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde
> Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the
> olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit
> pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a
> pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by
> istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot
> slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs forwrad it.
>
> ONLY FORWARD IF YOU CAN READ THIS



I was a little scared that what it was saying was true: I could read it with only the first and last letters being in the correct spots. It's like an evolved form of txt tlk. What are your opinions about this? And has anyone seen this before?

(I put this in Txt Tlk Horror Stories because I wasn't sure if it would fit anywhere else...)



I recently saw this and thought I would write my own little paragraph to test it. So here goes!

I wnet aounrd Astualria on my Hrlaey Dvidaosn, it took svreael dyas, tihs prgapaarh aslo took me aoubt tentwy muniets to wirte. At shocol I tkae Jurnolsim, Irmoatoinfn Secnice, Mhtas, Eglinsh and Cehmsirty. I wsih I culod sotp now, But I am diong tihs in the nmae of Gamramr.


If anyone can read this, vote Yes in the poll, don't post the answer.  
PostPosted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 3:33 pm
I can read that...eek!

Wait...why did I say 'eek'? I'm used to that type of stuff. I unscramble words pretty easily, so that's probably why.
 

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 5:14 pm
I've never seen that before.

My brain hurts now, after reading all of that. ><
 
PostPosted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 8:52 pm
The original has been around for many years. I don't know exactly how many, but the first time I saw it was at least 4 years ago.

I can read the test paragraph too. It wasn't that hard. I also noticed that one word has an extra T and another word is missing an A. I know I'm picky.  

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 2:20 am
Oops! Which words? I must have missed that... sad

EDIT: I found the extra "t" but not the missing "a".

EDIT2: Well... I just found the missing "a". The words have been corrected.  
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