The following famous quote:

Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteres are at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a tatol mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.

says

it doesn’t matter in what order the letters in a word are, the only important thing is that the first and last letter be at the right place.

is a hoax

Example:

Anidroccg to rcraeseh at Cgdirbmae utisreviny

is difficult to read.

The real secret is the word’s shape looks familiar

Microsoft has a technology on that called parallel letter recognition

And this is one of the reasons why written Chinese system is unique in all human languages. Fuck all uncivilized monkey languages like alphabetic or phonemic, logographic language FTW!

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