intellectually constipated

patrick gallucci's sql server brain drain

Waht deos it maen to be ilcelnteltulay cpnsttiaeod?

    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!

If you can raed tihs, trehe is a dtcisint piolbisstiy yru'oe
ilcelnteltulay cpnsttiaeod!

Published Monday, May 15, 2006 7:07 PM by Patrick Gallucci
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Jeff said:

Other than "constipated", I could read all of it. It's really weird, because it's like your brain sees the words. Kind of like the research results.
May 15, 2006 11:25 PM
 

Adam said:

This wasn't done at Cambridge. Although someone at Cambridge's Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit has had a closer look at the circulated story:

http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/~mattd/Cmabrigde/

See also:

http://www.snopes.com/language/apocryph/cambridge.asp
May 16, 2006 4:20 AM

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