Re: A stupid text trick - Example of the redundancy of English text

From: Richard Heathfield (dontmail_at_address.co.uk.invalid)
Date: 09/17/03 

Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 06:16:57 +0000 (UTC)

Vempu wrote:

>
> "Michael Amling" wrote
>> I would be curious to know how difficult to read our various
>> non-native English readers, contributors and lurkers find the above.
>> E.g. Cristiano?
>
> I am not Cristiano, but surely a non-native English reader. The first
> sentence "Dslyecixs taek haret" is the only one I do not understand. I
> guess the context is not yet clear to me.

"Dyslexics, take heart".

(Medically ignorant definition of dyslexia: a form of "word-blindness" in
which sufferers find it most odd that so much fuss is made by non-sufferers
about the order and orientation of letters.) 

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