推 goodfish700:不選字算不算其中一種啊？:P 05/20 22:58
→ mulkcs:樓上說得的確有點那種味道了 xD 05/20 22:59
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推 sardine:英文不好的人似乎看的很順手耶................ 05/23 06:17
"Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht
oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist
and lsat ltteers be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you
can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not
raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe."
Chances are you also understand it. It purports that the order of the letters
inside a given word doesn't matter, as long as the first and last letters of
each word are in the right place.
You can read the words because the human mind reads words as a whole, and not
letter-by-letter.
Well, that's what it says. But while it's entertaining and ego-boosting (that
is, if you can read it), it ain't exactly so.
The e-mail, while partially correct in its overall hypohsetis — um,
hypothesis — is "very irresponsible in several important ways," says Denis
Pelli, professor of psychology and neural science at New York University.
First of all — oops — there was never a study done at Cambridge University.
And therein lies a tale.
The e-mail was originally sent around without mentioning Cambridge; it got
added after the Times of London interviewed a Cambridge neuropsychologist for
comment.
Matt Davis, a senior research scientist at Cambridge University's Cognition
and Brain Sciences Unit, spent some time tracking down the origin of this
letter-transposition story.
He found that it comes from a letter written in 1999 by Graham Rawlinson, a
specialist in child development and educational psychology, to New Scientist
magazine in response to an article written about the effects of reversing
short chucks of speech.
In his letter, Rawlinson — whom FoxNews.com could not track down — wrote
that the article "reminds me of my Ph.D. at Nottingham University, which
showed that randomizing letters in the middle of words had little or no
effect on the ability of skilled readers to understand the text."
Rawlinson later contacted Davis, who has put up a Web site to address the
issues behind the often forwarded e-mail, to explain his comment and thesis
research.
"Clearly, the first and last letters are not the only thing that you use when
reading text," he wrote. "If this were the case, how would you tell the
difference between pairs of words like 'salt' and 'slat'."
Also to be noted, as one commenter on Davis's Web site, Clive Tooth, posted,
is that one permutation can result in many different words, and, while you
can take into consideration the sentence's context, one still can't be sure
about the author's true intention of word choice.
For example, the transposed letters of 'ponits' could spell out any of five
different words – 'pitons', 'points', 'pintos', 'potins', and 'pinots.'
The circulating e-mail itself is also misleading, Rawlinson said, because it
seems written to enhance the desired effect to further prove its point.
Rawlinson points out that words with two or three letters don't change at
all, making them totally understandable.
In the e-mail, almost half (31 out of 69) the words are correctly spelled.
The words that are unchanged are also often "function words," — the, you,
me, but, and — which help keep the grammar of the sentences basically
unchanged.
The e-mail also transposes adjacent letters, which makes the words easier to
read. For example, "thing" is written as "tihng," not "tnihg"; "problem" is
written as "porbelm," not "pbleorm."
Lastly, Rawlinson says, the phrasing used in the e-mail itself is quite
predictable. The sentences are simple and, given the unchanged words, one can
deduce their meaning easily.
Another expert in this particular field, Keith Rayner, professor of
psychology and director of the Rayner Eyetracking Lab at University of
California San Diego, said, "There is some truth to the e-mail in that people
can read sentences in which the letters are jumbled. But, there is always a
cost (i.e., they never read them as quickly and efficiently as they read
normal text)."
Rayner and his colleagues did an experiment in which they asked college
students at the University of Durham to read 80 sentences with transposed
letters. The letter transposition in the words resulted in lower reading
speeds for most participants.
The students read 255 words per minute when the sentences were normal, and
227 words per minute when the letters were transposed, a 12 percent decrease
in overall reading speed.
"While it may seem that it is easy to read text with transposed letters,"
Rayner wrote, "there is always a cost involved in reading such text in
comparison to normal text."
Davis, who seems sick of the e-mail, especially because of its added use of
the Cambridge name, said, "The moral of the story (at least where Cmabrdige
is concerned), is that untruths printed are very hard to suppress."
But he does see a silver lining in the fact that a simple forwarded e-mail
has brought light to an issue near and dear to his research interests.
"What's undoubtedly true is that scientific studies on jumbled letters and
letter-order in reading has increased considerably since the e-mail started
circulating," he said.
Now that you know the entire story, you'll be well armed with the "real"
facts when this "fact" comes up during cocktail hour.
Just make sure to answer intelligently.
And remmeber to aviod excesisve drniking.
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,511177,00.html?sPage=fnc/scitech/
naturalscience
http://0rz.tw/p2Pkm
其實這個玩法已經很老梗了，只是我想問說中文有沒有類似個作法？
應該很難吧 XD
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