Only great (or twisted) minds can read this

Well you are #6 and so far everyone can read it. I am beginning to think they made this up.

Practically everyone can get the gist of the above Yea but wouldnt "getting the gist" and actually being able to read it fully word for word be different....I mean I "get the gist" of politics but dont get it fully without hitch ya know.....

I agree, you are # 4. I personally like this one...attributed to Mark Twain: In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c"-- Sertainly this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favor of the "k". This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have 1 less letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" wil be replaced with the "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20% shorter. In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expected to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always been a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent "e"'s in the language is disgraceful, and they should go away. By the 4th yar peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v". During ze fifz yar, 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 be no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer. ZE DREM VIL FINALI KUM TRU

That was kinda the point here, though, according to the study. The transposition of letters didn't matter, because your brain subconsciously sorts them into the correct order and you end up understanding them, even though you notice they're in the wrong order, as long as the first and last letters (mostly) don't move. It's not like getting politics, where you have to consciously learn the basics; it's more like being able to catch a ball when someone throws it to you. Technically, that should require you to do a couple of pages of math involving vectors and trigonometry and relative velocities, but your brain goes ahead and works out the trajectories and hand-eye co-ordination needed before you're even aware the ball's on it's way, and you catch it. Or you flail miserably and miss it, like me. But the math still gets done ;)

I agree so can I count you as #2?

affirmatory CB friend.

Well when I first received it, she had sent it without a subject heading and she had left out the words that were not jumbled, was just all the mixed up words. It only took a few minutes for me to realize that there was actually a statement in all that mess. So I think I would consider myself as an "I can".

So if this were your first time seeing it, should you be counted as a can or can not read? It sounds like a can not read.

Well then I guess so far we are 100% weird. I wonder if people on Mylot should stop complaining about misspellings?

I wish they would stop complaining..I mean i know they can read these discussions and replys even if they make a mistake..Its a real petty complaint as far as i can see..Oh well you know what they say,some people would complain regardless..My daddy use to say people would complain if they were hung with a new rope..Haha don't even ask because i did not understand that saying either..haha

That could very well be, we often don't notice our misspellings. I wonder if this would hold true if it were written in cursive?

I said the same thing above. I also wonder if this would hold true if it were written in long hand?

I know, it really is amazing how easy it was to read. I wonder if this was administered to children, at what level would this be easy to read?

Hmmm.. Nice idea.. I shall try this to my nieces aged 4 and 9. They can read. :)

I am surprised my backspace key does not fall off.

Actually you are #10. No one seems to be having a problem with it.

Shelly, are you saying we are all twisted? Well the I agree. And here I thought I was weird because of my son...I guess I was weird before that.

That is what I had originally understood, but I thought that perhaps I was wrong. I think the more experienced you are at reading the easier it is to though.

It is scary if you don't notice I difference. makes me wonder what you are reading all the rest of the time.

According to snopes almost everyone can read this http://www.snopes.com/language/apocryph/cambridge.asp

Yes, it sort of makes you see just how complicated the brain is.