Spelling Problems? Some Good News For Hyeforumers!

[Sip]

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and

you can sitll raed it wiouth it bnieg a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

 

[nairi]

I tinhk tihs bongels in teh lganugae sticoen.

 

But they're right. In fact, this is old news As you become more and more fluent in a language, especially one that has a totally different alphabet, you begin to recognize words, very much like drawings, instead of single letters. This is actually a method that is used to teach kids reading and spelling. They're taught to look at the shape of a word rather than the loose letters.

[Sasun]

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and

you can sitll raed it wiouth it bnieg a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

 

Sometimes Domino writes like that.

[Sip]

I tinhk tihs bongels in teh lganugae sticoen.

dnoe.

 

.. and Susan ... waht do you maen "sometimes"

[nairi]

Nice one about Susan Which brings me to this: why do so many people mispell your name? I did it too in the beginning. Seaphan instead of Sip.

 

Another problem of mine is accidentally ommitting words. I notice I do that very frequently. Something about the mind thinking faster than we're able to write, or so I hear. Methinks it's more likely sheer stupidity on my part

 

Still, it's strange how the human mind works sometimes...

[Arpa]

Is ttha wyh MsoJna lspesl "vro" snitaed fo "vor"? :)

Of course we know why he does that.

Therefor I will spell it in its purest form as correctly transliterated- "or". No to mean avr as in "day".

I cannot think any one word/article in the English language that does as much as that masnik "or". In a phrase like "kyank@ inchpes or e" it means "ever as in "how ever life is". In or-peszi it would translated "so that", in "or-qan" it would be "how" (much), in "or-mek@" it will be "which", "iran asi or"- I told him "that" etc. and many others.

How many other uses does "or" have?

Is there any one article in the English or any other language to do what that poor little word does?

[nairi]

This really reminds of censuring words. Although it's a "rule" here, I personally don't see much point since you can still tell what the word is. I guess it's only hard to guess for those who really don't know.

 

Anyway, my fav remains orovhetev Actually, might as well add inch or (ka) and orove to my list as well

[MosJan]

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and

you can sitll raed it wiouth it bnieg a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

 

Iy et Resercherneri tsav@ tanem

 

haziv mek@ im ogtin mi lav ban asets

 

shnorhakal em !!!

[Sasun]

.. and Susan ... waht do you maen "sometimes" 

I am trying not to be too hard on Fedex

Edited September 17, 2003 by Sasun

[Sasun]

Nice one about Susan

Irina, what is so nice about it ?

[Harut]

i have this strange thing going on with me since i first started taking a pen in my hand. even today, when i write in Armenian, half of the time i write 'm' instead of 'v' and 'v' instead of 'm'.

go figure.

[hyebruin]

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and

you can sitll raed it wiouth it bnieg a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

 

Iy et Resercherneri tsav@ tanem

 

haziv mek@ im ogtin mi lav ban asets

 

shnorhakal em !!!

 

oh my god!! i breezed through that paragraph w/out a problem!!! that's some remarkable piece of research!!! though some part of me wanted to stop and try to read the letters, but as i was reading (and thinking about reading!!) i said to myself: "you're doing just fine...don't stop, just keep your eyes on the monitor..." and it worked!!!

 

mosjan, your comment was hillarious!!! ....

[hyebruin]

i don't believe 'irina' and 'susan' have introduced themselves to our forum...welcome aboard, i am nibru-hye from nibrastan

 

(that kind of sounds lame! ....oh well, who cares! it's only us reading this stuff!)

[nairi]

the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae.

So t**s e*****e s******e s****d a**o be e**y to r**d

 

Oh, and my name can't be Irina Maybe Niari (which is a common mistake people make here ), or Nriai and Narii. I'm sure Spaahen can make a quick program to clacultae all the possibilities

Edited September 17, 2003 by nairi

[THOTH]

Funny - I don't even have to try to write like that (Sepahns first post)...LOL...I'm both an inept speller and sloppy on the keyboard (much better/more precise (?) with my fingers in other areas though...LOL)..and like others here I had no problem at all reading the text - but I tend to read in blocks and not necessarily each individual word. A number of years back I had some damage to my retina in one eye - right in the center (had a hole...still do - but my mind has basically corrected for it)...but for a while I would have problems reading certain words - that were like grayed out...and the more I tried to read the word - focus/concentrate on it etc - the less i could see it...very frustrating...and I'm very glad I've compensated (surgery was not an option that I looked gladly at...).

 

And yeah - very funnny Sip - Susan/Sasun etc.....LOL

[Sasun]

Oh, and my name can't be Irina 

 

And why is that ??? It's a pretty good name. But I like Narii too

 

And yeah - very funnny Sip - Susan/Sasun etc.....LOL

 

Again I fail to see what is so funny On a different forum some Armos have tried to make my macho self angry calling me a woman's name.

But I realize sometimes they make a mistake, according to the study above.

[Sip]

So t**s e*****e s******e s****d a**o be e**y to r**d

 

Oh, and my name can't be Irina Maybe Niari (which is a common mistake people make here ), or Nriai and Narii. I'm sure Spaahen can make a quick program to clacultae all the possibilities

No program needed. Nairi has 5 letters ... there are 5! (read five factorial), or 120 different ways to rearrange those letters. There are duplicate i's which are indistinguishable, that makes half of those orderings redundant. So there are 60 unique orderings of the letters in the word Nairi.

 

For the above, the first and last letter are kept the same and we can only rearrange the middle letters. Nairi has 3 letters inside so there are 3! or 6 ways to rearrange it.

[gamavor]

That is an old one but I love it!!!

 

 

Euro-English Instead of German

 

The European Union commissioners have announced that agreement has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five-year phased plan for what will be known as Euro-English (Euro for short). In the first year, 's' will be used instead of the soft 'c'. Sertainly, sivil servants will resieve this news with joy. Also, the hard 'c' will be replaced with 'k.' Not only will this klear up konfusion, but typewriters kan have one less letter.

 

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome 'ph' will be replaced by 'f'. This will make words like 'fotograf' 20 per sent shorter.

 

In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent 'e's in the languag is disgrasful, and they would go.

 

By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing 'th' by 'z' and 'W' by 'V'. During ze fifz year, ze unesesary 'o' kan be dropd from vords kontaining 'ou', and similar changes vud of kors; be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.

 

After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil b no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru.