Stumbled across this blog and had to have a go myself http://blog.ggvic.com/2006/12/it-doesnt-matter-what-order-letters.html
Our brains are so smart that we only need the first and last letters in the correct order to be able to make a very accurate guess at the word.
For a bigger challenge, read Iain M Banks, Feersum Endjinn, much of which is written phonetically, for example:
Woak up. Got dresd. Had brekfast. Spoke wif Ergates thi ant who sed itz juss been wurk wurk wurk 4 u lately master Bascule, Y dont u ½ a holiday? & I agr.Amazon
Have a go jumbling your text:
http://www.stevesachs.com/jumbler.cgi
2 comments:
Howard Chace wrote about this kind of phonetic writing, which he called Anguish Languish. He added one further rule: all words had to be replaced phonetically with other valid words. His seminal work was a version of "Little Red Riding Hood", called "Ladle Rat Rotten Hut" - see http://www.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/ladle/index.html.
Get link - the war going on in my brain between what I hear and what I see is painful. My eyes win so I have to close them to understand. Very interesting.
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