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To: FreeAtlanta
I know. I need to give up on posting. I am getting sloppier by the day.

Getting older every day as well right?

iPads, auto correct in most browsers make it easy to mess up.

If people can read tweets then they can overlook a few mistypes. Check this out.

Aoccdrnig to rscheearch by the Lngiusiitc Dptanmeret at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

Translation: According to research by the Linguistic Department at Cambridge University, it doesn't matter in what order the letters in a word are, the only important thing is that the first and last letter be at the right place. The rest can be a total mess and you can still read it without a problem. This is because the human mind does not read every letter by itself, but the word as a whole.

46 posted on 04/09/2012 1:03:53 PM PDT by itsahoot (Tag lines are a waste of bandwidth, as are most of my comments.)
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To: itsahoot

I did not need the translation, and i think too much of made of typos. And with my stiff fingers i make plenty (and speech to text software has far to go). But a browser like Firefox will mark error and provides correction options via right click.

I use OpenOffice a lot which enables you to use autocorrect, so that the next time you misspell the word it will correct it automatically.


77 posted on 04/09/2012 7:43:00 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a damned+morally destitute sinner,+trust Him to forgive+save you,+live....)
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