Thursday, November 3, 2005

And I thought spelling was for smart people...

Olny srmat poelpe 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 deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

17 comments:

Col323 said...

I COULD read it! (easily and quickly)

How funny!

asformeandmyhouse said...

I'd like to see an example of that somewhere...



;)



Ooooooh - that WAS an example...took me a while to notice anything wrong!!!!



So WHAT am I doing spending all of this time teaching my daughter how to SPELL? And those parents who fussed about Inventive Spelling when I was teaching said it would never work. :)

KarenW said...

No wonder my kids can't spell! They can't see their mistakes.

RainyDayMichele said...

When I went back to school to get my education certification, one of my professors gave us something like this. It was to prove her point that phonics is only PART of the reading process....that syntax and semantics also plays a part in the process of reading. Really interesting isn't it!!

BrooksideAcademy said...

LOL, actually - I've seen something like that before - and I still love it.

Have I told you lately, I really love to read your blog:)

ccmmum said...

Thanks now I have a headache! I thought it was very similar to reading my kids' papers-they have creative spellings sometimes.

Alisa

Juldos said...

Cool! I could read it!

Julie D

Momma2theMax said...

taht all i hvae to do is get amanda to konw waht the lsat lteter is and she'll be oaky? we hvae smoe vrey ivnteive sellpnig aounrd hree

JenIG said...

i wish everybody always spelled like this. it would make my life a whole lot easier. and less people would offer to edit my stuff. ahem.


ps your comment on coie's pg was tres' funny. nice one, marsha

spunkyhomeschool said...

That is amazing. I read a similar one a while back and it always amazes me that I can read it.

3FoldChord said...

I always enjoy that one. That concept is actually used when teaching dyslexics. It is good to teach the kids to be able to recognize a certain word with the letters mixed up different ways.

3FoldChord said...

thanks for the note. I always have more than enough stuff to teach my kidsmore than they every need to know, yet I still want to get a dozen more cool teaching tools and resources......


but I am getting better

prairiemom said...

Wow, I was actually able to read that. This makes our Spelling problems seem less important. Thanks for posting this.

Gayla :0)

MomToTwo said...

I've seen this before and it still amazes me!!!

Fimsey said...

I could read that just as wasily as normal! This makes me feel better about my son's TERRIBLE spelling. I can relax knowing that he doesn't actually have to have the letters in order - he'll be thrilled! hahahaha

berrymorin said...

I didn't have an opportunity to stop by and visit. Hope you are having a great day.

Amber said...

I've raed tihs bfeore! Mraia's duhgtaer had tihs on her bolg. I gsues I'm sramt!


Anyway, I have a message for you from Jen aka Jammie....she had to change her blog due to lurkers, so I told her I would discretely tell some of her friends about the move while she sets up her new blog. Her new ID is heartmatters. Stop by and let her know you are aware of the change.



God Bless,

Amber