fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too
Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.
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!
Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes but when you look back, everything is different…
you once called your brain a hard drive, well say hello to the virus.
I swear mmoreeee people could read it.
But still.
It's prertty cooel :]
"Be nice. Think happy thoughts. Champion silver linings. Love all things (not just cute things like babies and kittens) & when you do love - love like they do in power ballads (you know like on a cliff with the wind in your hair and your eyes shut, knowing you'll never know love like this). Watch out for dog poo. Smile at people - even grumpy ones. Remember anything is possible & whatever you do always try to look on the bright side."
Its not if you can read it, it is if you can be bothered to read it.
If someone had created a proper thread with spelling like that or even worse, text speak, I would have left the page before I had even read the first line.
Let me be the one you call
If you jump i'll break your fall
Lift you up and fly away with you into the night
If you need to fall apart
I can mend a broken heart
If you need to crash then crash and burn YOU'RE NOT ALONE
Everyone should be able to read the first post's text, not for how it's written but for the fact that sort of thing has had dozens of threads a year probably
Oh dear. I just spent far too long typing out an extended reply with regards to prescriptivism versus descriptivism.
Then I realised nobody else cares.
But correct spelling is important. There was a need for standardising the English Language in the 17th century, which is why the first ever monolingual dictionary was compiled. Had this need not existed, or indeed remained, dictionaries would have never been so important in society.
