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The E-Sylum: Volume 6, Number 39, September 28, 2003, Article 17
WORD FUN, REVISITED
I was hoping to let it drop, but we've had some responses
about the letter order item published earlier. For example,
Ron Haller-Williams writes:"This appears to be a spoof. Please refer to
http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/thisweek/story/0,12977,1048638,00.htmlwhere a fuller analysis appears. I quote selectively:
"The ease might be illusory. Or even ilosruly. ... Scrambled
words can be hard to read.Martin Turner of the Dyslexia Institute says. "There is a
spectrum of truth here, and that is towards the lower end,
because actually sequence is about the only thing that is
important."In experiments young children can still read words disguised
with so-called format distortion - alternating letters in capitals,
lower case, superscript and subscript ... to disguise the
lettering - but what throws them is a change in the sequence
of letters. In fact, the exact way in which the letters are
scrambled can be extremely significant. For example, with
plurals, leaving the "s" at the end, but not the letter that should
have preceded it, can make the word hard to decipher."All you need to do is try and read that email," says Turner.
"Immediately, you discover it is quite difficult to read. And
secondly, you get very fed up with it after two or three sentences.
What you have done is put yourself in the position of a dyslexic
or poor reader, who loses interest jolly quickly. Motivation
slumps and it is quite an aversive experience. I got that email ...
and wrote back commenting that it was hard work, and aversive.
After a while, I thought: do I really want to do this? Why don't
I look out the window ...?"Try this one, which should be "familiar" territory to all of us:
Mnay naiimmssttus saceeiilpse, smoe in paaaciimmnrstua or
schiiloppry. Cdenors are failry palopur, aghlotuh nemoruus
eahinssttus cabeelrte caaciissl seeirs, icdilnnug Saaainssn and
paeilmotc. If you fnid tihs ibegillle or eceeilssvxy adourus,
reeqsut silnootus form ddeeiorrsd at hardslater.u-net.com"Ralond Helalr-Walilims", actual e-mail
disordered at heraldstar.u-net.com."- 2003-09-28
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