There's some sort of phenomena of the brain being able to read a completely misspelled word as long as the first and last letter are correct and the length of the word is the same. There was a paragraph talking about it, but in the misspelled format to emphasize the point. Can anyone help me find that paragraph? Or at least the official name of the phenomena?
2006-10-29 14:04:19 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Here you go, don't know what it's called though!
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2006-10-29 14:08:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
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There was a paragraph on the brain being able to translate vastly misspelled words...?
There's some sort of phenomena of the brain being able to read a completely misspelled word as long as the first and last letter are correct and the length of the word is the same. There was a paragraph talking about it, but in the misspelled format to emphasize the point. Can anyone help me...
2015-08-19 05:52:31 · answer #2 · answered by Hendrick 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Misspelled Paragraph
2016-10-15 05:52:36 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, you don't need that paragraph you are talking about; the only thing you have to do is just take a look at the spelling of most questions sent out to this group and you will get a very good idea as to what the human brain can do!
By the way, I do have that paragraph saved in my other PC, if I find it I will post it for you.
2006-10-29 14:55:12 · answer #4 · answered by Nikolas S 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you already got your answer. Isn't it amazing what a brain can do? English is not my native language, but even I can read taht msseed up eglisnh, bigger words even go easier than short ones. I guess that is why we easily overlook misspelled words when we re-read our own writing: we already know what we meant to say.
Love from Holland!
2006-10-29 23:06:24 · answer #5 · answered by icqanne 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dn'ot konw, but ocne I got an ea-iml form my gandard auobt taht. It was rlaley ieirnsteg.
2006-10-29 14:08:46 · answer #6 · answered by Tammie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This has an example and links to more information
http://www.snopes.com/language/apocryph/cambridge.asp
There doesn't seem to be a widely accepted name for it.
2006-10-29 14:11:14 · answer #7 · answered by James M 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Srory dno't konw whree to fnid it.
But tihs is vrey cool. I am ginog to tlak lkie tihs form now on.
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2006-10-29 14:07:53 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-10-29 14:07:50 · answer #9 · answered by s_e_e 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i cant remember what it was called but its in one of my classrooms and it was a study done by cambridge university
2006-10-29 14:06:51 · answer #10 · answered by sb13 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋