[Year 12 IPM] Typoglycemia

[Robert Timmer-Arends]

And that is why technically spelling is a convention and not a data accuracy
issue as we have been teaching for years!

That data is correct, even if it is conveyed in an unconventional manner.

Regards
Robert T-A
Brighton SC


----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith Richardson" <keithcr at fastmail.fm>
To: "List IP&M" <ipm at edulists.com.au>; "lyc Frank Virgona"
<fjv at optusnet.com.au>; "Denise Brown" <d.brown at yavneh.vic.edu.au>; "lyc
David Fisher" <d.fisher at yavneh.vic.edu.au>
Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 10:47 PM
Subject: [Year 12 IPM] Typoglycemia


> Maybe we don't need to use a full spell-check any more, now that we know
> how unimportant correct spelling can be! 'Unimportant', that is, for
> getting across one's meaning...
> Keith
>
>
>  Typoglycemia
>  Don't delete this because it looks weird. Believe it or not you
>  can read it .
>  I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was
>  rdanieg The   phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid Aoccdrnig
>  to rscheearch taem at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in
>  waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng
>  is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The
>  rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a
>  porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey
>  lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Such a cdonition is
>  arppoiately cllaed Typoglycemia :)-
>
>  Amzanig huh? Yaeh and yuo awlyas thought slpeling was ipmorantt.
> Keith Richardson
> Leibler Yavneh College
> Elsternwick Ph (03)9528 4911
> keithcr at fastmail.fm
>
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