letters or words

[Philip Hudson]

A reading test. Do you need the letters of a word to be in order to know the word?

AOCDRNDICG TO RSCHEEARCH AT CMABRIGDE UINERVTISY, IT DSENO'T MTAETR WAHT OERDR THE LTTERES IN A WROD ARE, THE OLNY IPROAMTNT TIHNG IS TAHT THE FRSIT AND LSAT LTTEER BE IN THE RGHIT PCLAE. TIHS IS BCUSEAE THE HUAMN MNID DEOS NOT RAED ERVEY LTETER BY ISTLEF, BUT THE WROD AS A WLOHE. IF YOU CAN RAED TIHS, PSOT IT TO YUOR WLAL. OLNY 55% OF PLEPOE CAN

[Perry Lassiter]

Who am I to agrue wtih cmabribgde uinervtisy?

[Slava]

While an lodey, tihs is ptrtey dogo. Hwveeor, I do qtsiouen the vctreaiy of the escruoe. If we ispcent the mgsease ceollsy, the lgnseot wdros hpeapn to be flariy cmomon wdros taht are elsaiy rtleead to rrsceeah. Wchih rsaeis the igrtniiung qtseioen of waht wluod ouccr if we wree to mkae use of rrear wdros? Tkae for elpxmae, the fcat taht I lkie to paly wtih wrods. So, wehn Mtfsrcooi's Dail Up Nnkrwtioeg prgraom strtas to mkae a ctcnnoieon, I asmlot aywlas say, "Vniyfliiig Ulseess Nmae and Prwssoad."

[Philip Hudson]

Slava, your example is harder than the one I sent. It took some untangling of some of the words and I didn't recognize all of them at first sight.

[Slava]

Slava, your example is harder than the one I sent. It took some untangling of some of the words and I didn't recognize all of them at first sight.

Aye, that's why I posted it. It's a rebuttal to the original. I first wrote that, according to my records, in 2003, which is why I consider it an old one. Though I must admit, I should have called it an lodei.

[Perry Lassiter]

As I understand it, the rule says the first and last letters must be correct, but you can jumble within. Slava's text does not consistently follow that rule. For instance, his last word lodei should read o...e with ldi in any order in between.