Comments | flipjargendy: A lttiel, ietrnestnig fcat!!!

flipjargendy

A lttiel, ietrnestnig fcat!!!

Jun 27, 2007 13:36

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh 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 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 lteter by itslef but the wrod as a wlohe.

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tebear21 June 27 2007, 21:08:30 UTC

WOW! Taht is so ture. I ddni't hvae a sngile pobrelm radenig taht psot! Sewet!

flipjargendy June 28 2007, 04:06:14 UTC

Adn i, no pobrelm redanig yuros! It's fnu!

jdbartlett June 28 2007, 04:24:23 UTC

Pretty neat. I realized we read words as symbols, but it's pretty amazing how easily we can compensate garbling. I wonder how well a spell checker would do reading this entry.

On a related perhaps even geekier note: one of the niggling little things that bugs me about GNOME and KDE is the default to display bright, chunky icons on common buttons (OK, Cancel, etc.) assuming it will help differentiate one from the other. Because we see words as symbols, the icons are redundant clutter.

GNOME and KDE comment... flipjargendy June 28 2007, 18:37:22 UTC

I've always been bothered by the size of buttons too and even the icons on the desktop. At least in GNOME you can resize the icons. I'm glad there's usually the option of using the command line and 99% of the desktop environment is customizable. Do you use FluxBox or any of those minimal desktop environments? i cannot decide which one to go with. Just curious if you are near and dear to any.

Re: GNOME and KDE comment... jdbartlett June 28 2007, 22:15:52 UTC

I've only used it in nUbuntu and BackTrack, but Fluxbox seems pretty neat. I'll probably play with it a bit more when Fluxbuntu comes out.

I tried Xfce for a few months on an old Dell Dimension 3000 in the office. It's very ugly and nasty to work around, and I can't say I really noticed any significant performance benefits vs GNOME.

If you're comfortable in the command line, I'd definitely recomment Fluxbox over Xfce. Haven't tried any others, though.

Re: GNOME and KDE comment... jdbartlett June 28 2007, 22:16:47 UTC

Syntax my need to work on I.

stop_the_car June 28 2007, 05:37:30 UTC

is that chineses??? or maybe spanish??? i don't understand what the heck yr talking about!!! speak english or get out of america!!!