Re: A stupid text trick - Example of the redundancy of English text
From: Michael Amling (nospam_at_nospam.com)
Date: 09/17/03
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Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 16:16:22 GMT
John A. Malley wrote:
> This is such a marvelous example of English language entropy/character I
> must share it with sci.crypt. A friend sent me this today:
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject: Dslyecixs taek haret
>
> Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deson't mttaer in
> waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht
> frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl
> mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do
> not raed ervey lteetr by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Isn't that great? :-)
>
> Native English speaker/readers should have no trouble parsing the text
> because of the redundancy of printed English. Only the first and last
> letters of each word remain in their expected positions.
Just to relate this to sci.crypt, if the the Germans had used this
with Enigma, a lot of the Allies' cribs would have been aus dem Ftsener.
--Mike Amling
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