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Raed tihs its so cool
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thats actually kinda cool
yes, that
and certain words can be jumbled along certain lines in ways which make them still very readable.
so basically what i'm saying is this is bullshit.
and certain words can be jumbled along certain lines in ways which make them still very readable.
so basically what i'm saying is this is bullshit.
I think it only works for simpler, shorter words. It does get irritating to read line after line of misspellings.
I second the "this is cool" opinion. And "according" isn't that short of a word...but I don't mean to offend anyone, and besides that was a bit of a tangent. Anyway. I thought that this was a joke post at first until I read through the whole thing and realized, "wow. they're right. it was a little harder to read than usual but I was still reading it just fine..." I suppose it would become extremely irritating to people who absolutely hate spelling mistakes, though (I was about to be one of those people when I saw the point of this).
All of the people who think this only works for short words are being kinda ignorant. As long as you have context to surround the word with, it will be easier to unscramble. That is the entire point of this. You can understand words because of the context.
Even with minimal content, you can partially scramble words and it will work.
Obviously if you spell it "patronmint" people might not realize you are saying "important". However, you can scramble the letters and keep the overall structure of the word the same, and then the length of the word doesn't matter (as long as the word is common enough that people will know what it is).
/edit: Something else I've noticed is that you don't want to scramble words to be similar to other words. For instance, I once did this a few years back titled "Improtent! A msut read!" and a lot of people read it as "Impotent!"
Obviously if you spell it "patronmint" people might not realize you are saying "important". However, you can scramble the letters and keep the overall structure of the word the same, and then the length of the word doesn't matter (as long as the word is common enough that people will know what it is).
/edit: Something else I've noticed is that you don't want to scramble words to be similar to other words. For instance, I once did this a few years back titled "Improtent! A msut read!" and a lot of people read it as "Impotent!"
This is pretty old chain mail. Yes, we know if you keep the first and last letters the same it is readable.
By teh way, it wrkos whit any wrod. No mttaer how cmopticelad.
Uslens it is rdidlucs, lkie antidisestablishmentarianism. No I am not eevn gonig to beothr sracmlbgin taht. It is not hrad to raed eevn in tihs way.
By teh way, it wrkos whit any wrod. No mttaer how cmopticelad.
Uslens it is rdidlucs, lkie antidisestablishmentarianism. No I am not eevn gonig to beothr sracmlbgin taht. It is not hrad to raed eevn in tihs way.
Yes, because I stated an opinion, I am clearly ignorant. Thanks for bandying about your typical pejorative stratagems to dismiss your adversaries as always, Justin. The point is being able to QUICKLY realize that hey 'aoubt' is still about, and you cannot do that with something fifteen letters long that you have to think way more about. Quickly, unscramble vrleinut viirelisidutme!!
If I said I read it as "virulent verisimilitude" in the same time it would take me to read it written normally, would you believe me? Because I swear I did.
i was able to unscramble virulent but i couldn't get verisimilitude. i don't use that word enough. personally i don't think it has much to do with the length of the word, usage seems to be what helped me unscramble the words. take a word like iprmoantt for instance. it is probably relatively easy to figure out what it says. cosineciunots on the other hand probably give you a bit more of a challenge.
How does the length not matter? The length, how scrambled up it is, and how often it is used all matter. About to Aubot is fine to unscramble because it is both short and commonly used, and there are not enough letters for it to be significantly scrambled, of course. Even if you still get it in just a second or two seconds more, that is still a lot of time when it takes like 1/3 - 1/2 a second to read a word normally.