Re: VMs: Fw: egnilsh spllenig

[Gabriel Landini <G.Landini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 12 Sep 2003 10:29 pm, Jeff wrote:
> An unrelated but very interesting message from a friend....... Does this
> tie in with the VMS I wonder....?
> > Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't=20
> > mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng
> > is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a=20
> > toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we
> > do=20
> > not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.
> >
> > Ecxlelnet

Just note that in that text above there are many letters which seem to be in 
the same order than the original word. The other detail is that only words 
with more than 4 letters will be shuffled and in those 4 letter words, it is 
just a swap of 2nd and 3rd character only.
By the length-rank zipf's law we know that common words tend to be short and 
therefore, they will be less shuffled that longer, less common words.

It was quite fun, though.

Cheers,

Gabriel


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