Bruce: 

The only thing that such "languge" proves is this nation's collapse 
into illiteracy.You can see it better in the classroom when students 
bring to you essays which contain totally incomprehensible text.

Eduard 



On Fri, 17 Mar 2006, Bruce Despain wrote...

>We've talked about the formal constraints of grammar.  Look what's 
been going
>around on the Internet.  It demonstrates the kind of wiring built 
into the mind
>for processing the printed word:
> 
>i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was 
rdanieg. The
>phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to 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!
> 
>Bruce
> 
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