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> (and no it wasnt me even though the spellingis
> oddly familar)

Not that this is news to FoRKs, but:

<http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/archives/000393.html>

> ... randomising letters in the middle of words [has] little or no
> effect on the ability of skilled readers to understand the text. This
> is easy to denmtrasote. In a pubiltacion of New Scnieitst you could
> ramdinose all the letetrs, keipeng the first two and last two the same,
> and reibadailty would hadrly be aftcfeed. My ansaylis did not come
> to much beucase the thoery at the time was for shape and senqeuce
> retigcionon.  Saberi's work sugsegts we may have some pofrweul palrlael
> prsooscers at work. The resaon for this is suerly that idnetiyfing
> coentnt by paarllel prseocsing speeds up regnicoiton. We only need
> the first and last two letetrs to spot chganes in meniang.

-Dave


