Read This:

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch paepr at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't
mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is
taht the frist and lsat ltteer 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.

Cool eh.

That is pretty indeed pretty cool.
I think it would be interesting to compare a person well versed in English to a person reading it as a second language.

In a training course we had to do, we were given the task of reading a paragraph, and counting the number of times we encountered the letter 'o' in the paragraph. The test was timed such that you had to read at a fair pace to finish.

once we read the paragraph, we had to write down the number of O's we had counted. After the test we compared results, and found that those people with a higher level of English education (ie: into University), to a person got the answer wrong. Most of the people with an average English background also got the wrong answer. The people that read and wrote English as a second language however, all got the correct answer. The trick of it was that there were 3 instances of the word 'to' and a couple of instance of the word 'of' in the paragraphs. A person fluent in English will skip over these words without thinking, because they are little more than fillers in the sentence. We don't need them in a sentence to understand what it's saying, and people who are more proficient in English instinctively skip right over them. People who speak and read English as a second language however, read every word in a sentence, since the instinctive understanding of the words lack of meaning hasn't made it's way into their subconcious yet.
One of the tricks of speed reading, is learning to actually read as few words in a sentence as possible, while still maintaining the meaning of the sentence.

anyway, just an aside.

That's neat. Just goes to show you that spelling shoudn't matter, as long as you get the first and last letter correct.

This is about the 4th or 5th time this has been brought up as well.. search people, search.

You spelled "poeple" wrong. What would I search for?

Ok, corrected if it bothered you that much.

Not sure on searching, maybe part of the sentence since its the same one just about all the others used, in which yours looked like it came straight from an spam messege in your inbox as you still have the > replied tags in your post you didn't remove..

so, should we do a search on any new topic we want to start, just in case it's buried back in the archive somewhere? and won't that then just piss off the people that get pissy whenever someone revives an old thread???

Just a question

Gvien taht we hvae seen tihs excat thraed over and over recnetly, I thnik a saerch wuold be apporpraite.

I'm not on every day of every week, so I don't necessarily see every post, even if one has been reposted multiple times (ie, I haven't seen this before myself, so if I had posted, I wouldn't know that this thread has appeared multiple times). So again, are the moderators now saying that the users of this forum must perform a search for every topic that they wish start, that being the only possible way of knowing for sure whether or not a topic has been posted multiple times. This being a popular forum, a post can blow back 3 or 4 pages in a couple of days. Is there a minimum number of hits, or period of time that must elapse before a similar, or identical thread can be posted. Will the moderators jump on anyone who gets pissy about someone renicarnating an old thread? How aggressively will one be prosecuted for posting on a topic that has already appeared? etc etc etc.....

Sorry - to leap in Mods, but.....

Since this is a non-technical type of post and since many many people have seen it (i think it was in The Register at one point, but I may be delusional ) a search is a good idea. The nature of the internet is that a joke tends to hit a few thousand (at least) people at the same time. This means that, in this case, something that's at least 2 months old will have been seen by thousands more. A quick search would have shown you the multiple posts on this forum. If you wanted to bring it to LQers attention, you could have just posted in an existing thread to push it to the top of the list.

Normally it's a good idea to search for a technical thread to make sure the answer isn't already there - why should the 'General' board be any different.

English is not my mother tongue but i had no problems reading the above text.

It's not like it's a huge deal that someone has already posted this, so nobody has gotten "pissy" yet. For the most part you'll come across threads that are repeats of others, while in general it's frowned upon, we understand it happens. I think the difference with this thread is that it is literally almost a word for word duplicate of a previous thread, that if I remember correctly, was an almost identical duplicate of a previous thread, etc. To be truthfull I actually thought is was the same thread until I saw the original post date. Besides, it's not like you get charged for searching or that it's some insanely complex task. So, why not take advantage of it? It just falls under the general netiquette category that people (mods especially) appreciate.

Lets just come to a conclusion that if you get it by email from a friend that's been passed along as one of those forwarding jokes, spam, etc, lets keep it off the forum. We really don't need what is being passed around thru email that makes people mad posted on our forums either.

I'm not saying I'm against jokes, but there is a line that needs to be drawn.

But I also agree with XavierP, you should treat the General forum like if you were looking up a technical question so you don't ask what's already been asked and so on.

If you got something funny to post and think its not been posted, a small search isn't going to kill you. If your here to just read what others have to say, that's fine, your not posting so you don't necessarily have to search if your just browsing and giving your opinions and comments.

Regards.

This would be pretty cool if I haven't seen it on 6 different forums and 10 times in each.

Including this one.

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