Poll: This is weird, but interesting!

[SaltyOrange]

This is really interesting,I wonder if it can be done with all languages.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

I understood every word and have seen similar quotations on shirts before. It is pretty cool that the human mind works like that :3

 

[rokkolpo]

Actually I believe 100 out of 100 people can read it.

 

[Radoh]

This is really interesting,I wonder if it can be done with all languages.

As I recall, any language that uses a similar alphabet can. However, languages like say, Japanese cannot because the difference in the structuring of words.

 

[kurupt87]

Heh, I guess I'm late to the party with this knowledge.

Actually, I'm pretty sure it's more than that that can read it. I think a significant majority can. Also, you can't call some people 'strange minded' when a minimum of 55 out of 100 people can.

That "strange-minded" sentence is from the actual text, I think it is supposed to have been sent from one self-effacing person with dyslexia to another.

Otherwise; brains are so cool.

 

[Smooth Operator]

Unless 45% of those people can't read that statistic is bull, still very neat trick.
I know our mind quickly approximates words and context, and with this you can actually "feel" it work it's magic.

 

[Jaric93]

I think it's pretty cool. I can read it fairly easily but I have practiced decryption for many years now. The next step is understanding my own handwriting

 

[timeadept]

Kinda cool, but 55 out of a hundred is 55%, barely over half of the people they looked at. I wouldn't exactly call it strange if more than half of a population is capable of doing it.

 

[FamoFunk]

I think I can read it better then the correct spelling way

 

[SNIPERFOX ft. Harry P.Ness]

i read it.
i think more than 55% of people can read this. yes, homo sapeins sapeins human brains ROCK

 

[LikeDustInTheWind]

This is very, very old. And the number is a lot closer to 95%

 

[Tulks]

Heh, I guess I'm late to the party with this knowledge.

Actually, I'm pretty sure it's more than that that can read it. I think a significant majority can. Also, you can't call some people 'strange minded' when a minimum of 55 out of 100 people can.

That "strange-minded" sentence is from the actual text, I think it is supposed to have been sent from one self-effacing person with dyslexia to another.

Otherwise; brains are so cool.

I suspect that the suggestion that it's a communique between dyslexics is just a framing device. Similarly, the reference to Cambridge Uni is likely because it's an easily-recognisable word pattern, given contextual cues.
This is, after all, the same mental trick which lets us solve crosswords and anagrams.

 

[timeadept]

It's a lot more than 55 out of 100 that can read it. Anyone can if they're willing to just relax and skim it. As long as the word is the right length and starts and ends with the correct letter our minds will make up the rest.

But it is very cool regardless.

Really? Cause i'm a slow reader and though this did slow me down a little more than usual at times, but it wasn't difficult. I would be in class and notice people reading at least 3 or 4 times faster than me. I figured that I just don't know how to speed read, but if that's what i'm already doing normally...

Btw, i think it's what i do normally because i have been known to completely restructure words into other words while i'm reading, (usually rearranging the letters accounts for most of it as well).

 

[kurupt87]

Heh, I guess I'm late to the party with this knowledge.

Actually, I'm pretty sure it's more than that that can read it. I think a significant majority can. Also, you can't call some people 'strange minded' when a minimum of 55 out of 100 people can.

That "strange-minded" sentence is from the actual text, I think it is supposed to have been sent from one self-effacing person with dyslexia to another.

Otherwise; brains are so cool.

I suspect that the suggestion that it's a communique between dyslexics is just a framing device. Similarly, the reference to Cambridge Uni is likely because it's an easily-recognisable word pattern, given contextual cues.
This is, after all, the same mental trick which lets us solve crosswords and anagrams.

Sure and sure. We can do it through exposure. If I went through a thesaurus and replaced all the commonly used words in the passage with their rarer synonyms, as well as adapting the grammar to fit, then it'd leave many of us scratching our heads.

I don't think it changes how cool this trick is though.

 

[Psycho Cat Industries]

That was originally a chain letter if memory serves.Read it some 5 years ago before.

 

[crudus]

Jimmy John's establishments have these signs. It is just how the brain reads. It reads words at a time rather than letters. The first and last letters need to be in place the rest can be in what ever order. Also, this has been floating around for a long while. I first saw it freshman year of high school (7+ years ago). Lets try it: astaberismleidatitinsanishnm.

Actually, I'm pretty sure it's more than that that can read it. I think a significant majority can. Also, you can't call some people 'strange minded' when a minimum of 55 out of 100 people can.

I am pretty sure it is 99% if not 100%(of literate people, of course). And yes, "strange" typically does mean "against the norm" and 50% is usually defined as "the norm".

 

[crudus]

The word looks horribly mangled, but I'm pretty sure it's meant to be antidisestablishmentarianism. Does that mean success if I could tell what it ought to be even though nothing can not make me see it as horribly mangled? XD

I asked the internet for an anagram for antidisestablishmentarianism. I just made sure the first and last letters were in the right place and I hit post. Honestly, the word spelled correctly looks horribly mangled.

 

[DarkShadow144]

I've Known this for a while but it is always fun. I didn't notice it was worded like that till I reread it.