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Who needs spellcheck?

I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I'm wdgtieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in what oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is that the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? Yaeh, and I awlyas toughht slpeling was ipmorantt!

Besides, we have products that look like they should read UMM! TOE JELLY, Kuiet, Oral Thrills, Teal, Aireal, Say Wha, etc. Actually, it may be more audiophoolish to ban Spellcheck.

What other products come to mind?
lugnut

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papertrail
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I think you guys have smoked some Toejelly. lol
papertrail
186 posts
 
Gunbei---Were you a member of "gimme summa dat" too? It's nice to run into a brother. I was class of 75.
papertrail
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Actually, if you try this enough, you will find that the theory does not always work---as in the second post with the word "untie" for "unite". Or "Deos tihs sunod derousangly lkie sevibuvrse caleteribon of artamuesim?" In ohter wrods, it is not to hrad to do wtih sroht wrods.
papertrail
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What "lugnut" forgot to mention is that the "spelling gimmick" only works if the first and last letter of each misspelled word are the same as in the real word. Did I mispell misspelled?
papertrail
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Lugnut and Gunbei---All apologies. I had seen this before and did not entirely reread this particular post, so I had forgotten. Jsut tie me to the "Wihppnig Psot" but please don't put me "Bcak on the Cahin gnag".
papertrail
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Lugnut, go back and read my post of 4-7, if you havn't already. And yes as they say, "I eased off a brain fart". But I still maintain that the spell gimmick only works under controlled situations.
papertrail
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Lugnut, i may be being presumptious, but absolutely no offense was taken...and as a teacher of literature and a student of languange, I find the human brain and its capacity for understanding and misunderstanding to be fascinating. Would "toejam" or toemarmelade" have a more positive conotation than "toejelly"? :)
papertrail
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What speakers with a weird name do ya'll listen to while chin polishing?
papertrail
186 posts
 
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