I don’t expect to understand everything, I am perfectly fine with the fact that some things just fly over my head.
Today I read something and my eyes got bigger and bigger, because I really have absolutely no explanation, why I can read and understand something that seem to make no sense at all.
This really puzzled me!
There you go:
Arinocdcg to rencet rseaerch, the hmuan brian is plrectfey albe to raed colmpex pasasges of txet caiinontng wdors in whcih the lrettes hvae been jmblued, pvioedrd the frsit and lsat leetrts rmeian in teihr crcerot piiotsons.
The fcat taht you are ridenag tihs now wtih reaitvle esae is poorf of the thoery.
Wehn we are yonug we not olny lraen how to raed, but aslo ibcerndily and uninaenionltlty lraen how to raed waht wuold by nmoral cooevntnin be decerbisd as uettr nnsosnee.
Tihs bges qtuseonis abuot the dicrieotn of laagngue eolotuvin.
Waht wlil lgganaue look lkie in geotrnaiens to cmoe?
Whtuoit dobut hmuan binegs are albe to asobrb pvrseiogerlsy mroe maening form pvolesesrrigy rucdnieg anotmus of wrdos and lrttees.
We now raed in shohtnrad – and iamegs – and sfcginltianiy we are beord by aiytnhng taht is too lhtngey.
Posorneiafl witerrs need to get tehir pniot asorcs in jsut a few seodcns, or the raeedr’s anitttoen is lsot.
The jmbleud wdros torhey datrmneeosts jsut how caalbpe the biarn is at arnboibsg mneaing far mroe qilcuky tahn msot wrietrs wuold eevr iaimnge.
And a fnail daioertomstnn of how celver yuor barin is – can you raed tihs?…
Isn’t this fascinating?
Aren’t we fascinating?
I had some trouble getting all the words above there… but, still did quite well… wink ☺…
That was fascinating, indeed. All my best wishes. Aquileana ✨
It’s stunning how we, who use English as a second language, can still read it isn’t it?
I cant find in the photo which side is jumbled words. Is that bad?
Pretty bloomin’ amazin’, eh? That’s also the reason why it’s hard to proof-read anything adequately! We see a mistake, our brain fixes it automatically. We read right over the top of them most of the time.
You are 100% right about proof-reading. And one reason why it’s hard to teach/learn to read a second language.
Yep, I am going to blame my brain for future typos 🙂
Bridget, you can always try reading it backwards. They say your brain can’t fill in the words as well if the writing doesn’t make sense anyway. So reading it backwards helps! 😀
loved this and read it through! Working with people with Aphasia and using computer programs to unscramble words was one of the exercises we used to do. I have become much better at doing the Jumble in the newspaper as a result!
I had no doubt that you could read it 🙂
Isn’t that cool. According to research at Cambridge U, it doesn’t matter if the words are in the correct order as long as the first and last letter are correct. Our amazing brains don’t read each letter, but the word as a whole, so they reorganize the letters for us. This is why it’s so hard to catch typos!!! So amazing 😀
Oh my you just nailed it! I have the hardest time proof reading stuff. I have the tenancy to over-read my typos over and over. That does explain it…I am not a bubble head, it’s my brain. 🙂
Yes, your marvelous brain is fixing your mistakes. Isn’t that annoying? Ha ha 😀
Amazing! 😄
Drwrm= dream… stupid phone. >_<
I am at war with my phone as well, it’s not as smart as it thinks it is 🙂
95% of the jumbledness I could understand
I had no problem to read it but I also have a mixture in my brain and I suppose that anyone that can understand the numerous Swiss German dialects and speak the language all day would probably be able to understand anything. I studied Russian for 12 years, did a year Arabic, although not much has remained and speak French and Italian as well as even hochdeutsch but everything a mixture. I dream in Swiss German and english being a Londoner (cockney actually).
That makes it so much more interesting for us I think, because we do speak more than one or two languages.
I think that’s why it puzzles me so much.
I am glad you liked it and I am glad you stopped by. 🙂
Ein herzliches “Gruezi” sende ich nach der Schweiz.
Merci viou mau
🙂
This is fascinating! I was surprised when I read it out loud with not a lot of trouble. Thanks for sharing.
You are so welcome. I am glad you liked it.
Pretty neat isn’t it?
It puzzles me 🙂
I’ve read about this and it is extremely interesting how we can get past the jumbled letters. It’s the miracle of how our brains function, although I wish I was as good at remembering names as I am reading mixed-up words.
I can’t remember names for the life of me. I remember faces and numbers, but names…nope. I call every customer “Honey” 🙂
I’ve seen this before, and it is fascinating. My mom told me that I learned to read at a very early age — three I think. She also told me that at a young age (probably not three) I could read from her newspaper as she read it, sitting opposite from her at the table so the text to me was upside down, and backwards. I can’t remember a time when I couldn’t read, so I’ve never questioned her. The mind is a mysterious thing indeed.
I find it fascinating, because I wouldn’t think that it would work for me. English is not my first language, so I would have sworn that I might have seen (or read) some German or Italian words, but NO I can read it just fine.
That just doesn’t make any sense to me.
It just means you’ve been speaking English long enough… Do you dream in English? That’s when you know you’re fluent.
I am fluent in Hindi, English, German and a few other ones (I worked as a translator for many, many years).
I don’t dream very often, I can’t answer that question. I curse in English and every other language I know 🙂
Next time you drwam, pay attention to what language everyone is speaking. That would be the language your brain is attuned to on an everyday level.
I studied linguistics and language aquistion in college. ^_^
What is language acquisition?
Learning new languages as adults. I meant to write adult language aquistion … it’s way different that learning a language when we’re kids
Language acquisition …the auto correction on your phone seems to be killing you today.
Brain fog… it’s awful.