Quote: Steven Wright on Having Everything

I can read most of it except for some words where the first letter has changed and where double consonants have moved from one end to the other.

The main problem is in names, since you can never really know what a person is called, and if the randomized word becomes a new word (i.e. "salon" becoming "sloan" for instance).

Yeah, names don't work at all. Especially last names.

Must be me then, couldn't make heads or tails out of it. But then, I struggle with igpayatinlay ;-)

Wow. For a moment there I thought I had a mini stroke and all the words got jumbled. *phew* It's odd I can easily read that I guess our brains just naturally are able to focus out the "noise" and recognize the words. Gotta love our squishy gray matter. :)

And I have to agree with MrPumpernickel: Names are definitely one of the hardest things to differentiate in this sort of brain trickery.

Why would you do that.

I always thought there was something fishy with that study. I couldn't make heads or tails of some words without serious thinking. "Cetilns" really got me.

The original meme didn't have any proper names, but proves the point about first and last letters clueing the brain in to the word. good sfutf.

I think I read about this before in this blog.

Yeah, last names like Stawczyk and company names like Juvenex knock things out of whack.

I'd like to point out that the context of the words really help out. You brain kind of 'expects' certain words, which is why sometimes its easy to fill in a word for someone in a conversation if they pause. The more difficult words are easier to 'guess' bassed on the easier words around them.