permuting letters and fairy tales

[Mike Meyer]

imbosol at aerojockey.com (Carl Banks) writes:

> Johannes Nix <Johannes.Nix at gmx.net> wrote in message news:<67lld8kr76.fsf at aster.homelinux.net>...
> My thought is that, the brain doesn't read the word as a whole as they
> claim, but neither does it pay too much attention to the _exact_
> ordering.  So you could scramble the letters a little, and it will
> still be recognizable; but scramble them a lot, and you will have
> trouble.

"Word shape" used to be a popular theory on word recognition. That
would explain why mixing up the interior letters sometimes works and
sometimes doesn't. But that theory has fallen out of favor in recent
years.

          <mike
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