Ah, an old(ish) one, its pretty nifty.
I wonder if it is possible to exploit this phenomena to compress text 
substantially more than the norm - sort of an "mp3" style lossy 
compression.  Interesting that the letters for each word are all there, 
if they were mostly random I bet it would be unreadable.  This would 
allow more text to be transmitted over some kind of extremely limited 
channel, not sure what an application might be.  There are probably 
better ways to go about tackling that kind of problem though.

J


Dario Greggio wrote:
> 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! if you can raed tihs forwrad it
> 
> FORWARD ONLY IF YOU CAN READ IT.
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