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Originally Posted by fn8t
Can you read this and believe it?
Is yeu cln rfad tae msssage is tuis wrlting yeu ade apong e soall pprcentage ol tee hdman roce. Tnis m'ssage it r geod wag td stek tho qiats ost fmom aeong tse sseep.
Gaod lgck, feiend.
If yes or no, why?
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This is a neat way of forcing people to speed read. In speed reading you train yourself to process larger blocks of text rather than individual words. I think it's most interesting in that it states the person reading it is special, as far as I know, everyone who is passably literate can read this, I wonder if they would, if they weren't told they were special. The first sentence is simple. "if you can read the message in this writing you are among a small percentage of the human race." Oh, I'm special and this isn't just someone messing with me, let's read the next sentence for more flattery. "This message is a good way to ..." my brain wants to say "... see who has lost - from - enough - the sleep.", though "who, the, and sleep" are the only words that still fit the previous pattern. Your presentation is interesting to me, because I cannot tell if I can't find a sentence block to fill in the second half of the second sentence, because you've insulted my sleeping patterns or if it is because you have completely deviated from the norm and my sentence block is appropriate for interpreting the haphazard word spaghetti you might find from someone who has lost sleep.
That last point is an indication as to why these exercises are fundamentally annoying, I'm extending you the same sort of strained interpretation reserved for the ill, dying, and speakers of foreign languages, but you are just goofing around.
So, which is it? Have I solved the last quarter of your puzzle or have I exposed my own psychological blind spot?
