[Gllug] government auto mail scanning ....

[John Winters]

On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 11:57 +0100, Alain Williams wrote:
> I received the text below from a friend. OK: it is nothing really new,
> but it occurred to me: I had no problems reading it, but what would the
> government anti al-Qaeda (or substitute today's bogey man) auto mail scanning
> s/ware make of it ?
> 
> Hmmmm
> 
> ********
> 
>  if yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid, too. Cna yuo
>  raed tihs?  Olny 55 plepoe tuo fo 100 anc.
> 
>        i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was
>  rdanieg.  The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a
>  rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr
>  the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the
>  frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae.  The rset can be a
>  taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm.  Tihs is
>  bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but
>  the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot
>  slpeling was ipmorantt!  if you can raed tihs forwrad it.

Interesting that someone has added that first short paragraph to it
which hasn't been there in all the copies which I've seen before.  It's
clearly by a different author because it a) introduces a new idea - that
many people *can't* read it and b) it doesn't conform to the given rule.

I suspect the first paragraph was added by the same person who thought
of trying to turn it into a chain letter and that the statistic is
totally bogus.

John

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John Winters, Wallingford, Oxon, England
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