| </span><blockquote><span class="smallfont">Quote:</span><hr size="1" />Originally Posted by (Sodfather,)
Well I read through the paragraph at my normal reading speed the first time I saw it, so it's true for English at least.<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>
If you had actually taken the time to read the link, you would realize that this is, in fact, a myth. First, this isn't based on recent research done at Cambridge; if it's based on anything, it's an obscure, unpublished doctoral thesis written in 1978. Second, it's simply not true that only the first and last letters matter. At first glance, the letters in the post that started this thread appear randombly jumbled, but in fact most of the jumbling is the very selective application of transpositions, wherein the letters remain in approximately the same location as in the original word, maintain proximate relationships, etc. The phenomenon at work is a bit more subtle than "only the first and last letters matter". |