{"id":378,"date":"2003-09-17T09:44:09","date_gmt":"2003-09-17T16:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2003\/09\/poorf_raednig\/"},"modified":"2015-06-17T09:49:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T13:49:00","slug":"poorf_raednig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2003\/09\/poorf_raednig.html","title":{"rendered":"POORF RAEDNIG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Jan Herman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Your brain is hard wired in such a way as to recognize potential matches to familiar objects; this is how optical illusions work. <\/p>\n<p>But did you konw taht aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn&#8217;t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer is in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by istlef but the wrod as a wlohe. Cool eh?<\/p>\n<p>In fcat, I hvae no ieda whetehr an Elingsh Uinervtisy has rllaey dnoe tihs rscheearch. But Idbuot it. So far, Herr Doktor Professor Alan M. Edelson, who knidly e-mlaied me taht praagaprh, has not dcsioveerd its ogiirn. Nor hvae the fkols who snet it to him. I ceehckd on Gglooe, aksnig tihs qstueion: Deos it mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are?<\/p>\n<p>Gglooe rpleid: &#8220;<FONT face=Arial><FONT size=3><FONT color=#ff0000>Did you mean:<\/FONT><EM>  <STRONG>Does<\/STRONG><\/EM> it <EM><STRONG>matter<\/STRONG><\/EM> in <EM><STRONG>what order<\/STRONG><\/EM> the <EM><STRONG>letters<\/STRONG><\/EM> in a wrod are?&#8221;<\/FONT><\/FONT> and streeed me to tihs stie: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jwz.org\/hacks\/marginal.html\">marginal hacks<\/a>, aonmg ohters scuh as teehs: <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.gamez.com\/games\/messages.x?f=diabloofftopic&#038;thread=2635\">gamez.com<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/giantant.com\/antenna\/\">antenna<\/a>. Oblivousy, the praagaprh has been mkaing the rnuods on the Itnrneet.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Makes me think of&nbsp;old-time typesetters who could read&nbsp;words upside down and mirror-image backwards.&nbsp;Some&nbsp;didn&#8217;t even need the letters, just the serifs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jan Herman Your brain is hard wired in such a way as to recognize potential matches to familiar objects; this is how optical illusions work. But did you konw taht aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn&#8217;t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-378","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-66","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16457,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions\/16457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}