[CS] Vrey Itrestening

[Paul Swartz]

Elton Joe wrote:
> "Aoccdrnig to rseearch 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 porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae
> the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a
> wlohe."
> 
> Sorry about not having a source for this, it's just something that has
> been floating around the Web.

Speed reading works on a similar principle, but on the 
sentence/paragraph level: you don't need to read all of the words in a 
sentence to understand its meaning (usually).

-p
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