[Charles Henrickson]

Tihs is vey sirees.

[Charles Henrickson]

Tihs is HGUE!

[Charles Henrickson]

Ecsuxe me, I manet to say:

Tihs is HGUH!

[pgkdan]

Wow. Taht ralely was azaming! I raed the whloe thnig wihtuot misisng a baet!

[r9etb]

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.

Actually, I think the mind reads patterns of letters, and self-corrects to known spellings when it sees them. I noticed that I had to work a little harder in deciphering the misspellings to figure out what they should have been.

But that's probably too simplistic -- the mind also uses context to differentiate between words which could be "corrected" more than one way. We basically know what the word "should be" because we are able to perceive the basic thrust of the thought before it's completed.

For example, let's just randomize the order of the sentence:

The deos ervey a total rset mses and be you wrod wlohe can be raed it porbelm can. huamn bcuseae be mnid not raed lteter by Tihs is istlef, but the the wouthit as a.

The context is gone, and now it's much more difficult to tell what's going on. It looks much more like random typing.

[stainlessbanner]

ma I degglo ni?

[mrtysmm]

You know what's scary? I really can read that stuff. Is this what's going on in our schools? No wonder the kids can't pass tests. No wonder the TEACHERS can't pass the tests.

[Publius6961]

Correction.
Real readers may be able to do that.

Not too many of us left.

[Our man in washington]

Yes, but deos it wrok for lgnoer wrods lkie alhrsiibsnamnasiiasttnetedm?

[SpinyNorman]

Of course, we could all simply be getting "trained" to compensate for the piss-poor spelling and grammar that pervades the web......

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Garet nwes! Now I can crsue on Fere Rpebluic wtih wlid anabodn!

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

What will this mean for ebonics?

I'm sure Sheila Jackson-Lee will believe this Cambridge University study to be a white racist ploy aimed at erradicating the African-American influence on the English language.

[najida]

My head hurts from trying to read all of this.

[Walkin Man]

Hey tihs is gaert!

So lnog sepllchkceer!! LOL!

[dansangel]

Colo! I lveo thsi psot!

[LibertyAndJusticeForAll]

pnig!

[January24th]

Deos tihs wrok whit wrdos lkie aitcatiolrun?

I dnot tihnk so.

[headsonpikes]

Sudons lkie bl*sulht.

[new cruelty]

bmup

[MattAMiller]

Vyre Igetrnitse. Btu I tkinh teh lneght of teh wdor mtretas as deos teh etxnet of teh mxingi.