Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.

[saildog]

Sometimes these articles contain complete bovine excrement.

Yep. However, I bet most people can't glance at it and read it. Heck, I can't and I wrote it.

The original statement contains 121 words. 81 of those are 1,2,3, or 4 letters.

Even though the author of this forwarded email didn't follow his/her own rules and scrambled 3 letter words (you can't scramble a three letter word AND have the first and last letter be the same as the original....no way "Cambridge Uni" missed that one), a 4 letter word only requires switching the middle letters. That's not a challenge. That means 67% of this message is easily decoded.

Now, there are 13 five letter words. 5 letter words are not a challenge, given the rules. That means 78% of this message is easily decoded.

That leaves 27 words that are 6 plus letters. You can get 22% of any short message without much difficulty, if you are working from context (and provided the message makes sense). AND one of those words "rscheearch" did not fall within the rules and your brain still allowed you to read it. ("researcher", but I bet you glossed over that at first glance, like me, and read it as "research" then moved on. It wouldn't have changed the context.)

[GlobalObserver]

I can read it without any difficulty whatsoever.

[YANOULI]

no problem for me.

[Adam West]

It's not as simple as having the first and last letter in the correct place. It is much deeper than that. In fact, if that were the basis of this theory, there is one word in that statement that does not have the last letter placed correctly and no one seems to have noticed. Based on that, I would say it has more to do with context. The brain fills in the blanks, even when the rules are not followed.

Now, who can find the word that does not follow the rules?

Also, I placed a statement in this thread, following the rules, and I bet you can't read it at a glance.

The first word "If"...that was easy because it was only a two letter word.

I read the complete paragraph with as much ease as reading a book.

Your sentence, I read relatively easy with the exception of one word which I had to unscramble which was "article"

[Wee67]

This, by the way, is how people can read my amazingly sloppy hand writing.

[trekman101]

I read and understood it before I realized it was spelled wrong

[blastphemey]

i can read it, how many does that make it on this site?