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TruckOSaurus on 03 August 2011
kowenicki said:
I am interested to see how people with English as their second language deal with this well know paragraph:

(To a native english speaker it is easily read)

Aoccdrnig to rseerach at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh?

PS: Hwo'd yuo lkie to run tihs by yuor sepll ckehcer?

Yeah it reads just fine. In fact, it's much easier to read than a post filled with errors and abbreviations.



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zuvuyeay on 03 August 2011

well i enjoy typo's or muddled sentences one of the funny things in forums and you can see what people mean,i'm english and don't have a clue about grammar and apostrophes but then i didn't do well in the classroom,i'm always impressed with foreigners grasp of english,of course a lot of people communicate in english from different countries so it helps,the internet has helped many people with reading and writing i'd say where otherwise they wouldn't partake

you just have to look at written english to see where the words come from as in latin,nordic,germanic etc

i wonder if rol or others would know what a scouser or geordie was going on about



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xinstantnoodlez on 03 August 2011

how about onomatopoeia?



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Farmageddon on 04 August 2011
kowenicki said:
I am interested to see how people with English as their second language deal with this well know paragraph:

(To a native english speaker it is easily read)

Aoccdrnig to rseerach at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh?

PS: Hwo'd yuo lkie to run tihs by yuor sepll ckehcer?


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Jay520 on 04 August 2011

This thread still going on. If I would have made this thread, it would have been dead withing three hours. : (



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Final-Fan on 05 August 2011
Jay520 said:
This thread still going on. If I would have made this thread, it would have been dead withing three hours. : (
This thread is still going on.  If I had made this thread, it would have been dead within three hours. 

Perhaps because you are too subtle in incorporating the mistakes you hate into your posts.  People do not realize you are doing it on purpose, and are just annoyed to see badly written complaints about bad writing. 



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luvtospooge on 05 August 2011

The most common mistake that I have seen? Anyways instead of anyway.