Csuiortiy

[desperance]

I may be very slow and behindhand, but it occurs to me suddenly that the research that demonstrated that our brains can actually understand a text where the letters of the individual words are scrambled up in any order, just so long as the first and last letters are in their proper places, emerged side by side with all that spam where the spelling is deliberately shot to hell to avoid filtration. Now I'm wondering, did the research inspire the spammers, or did the spammers inspire the research?

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[devonellington.livejournal.com]

I notice that when I'm proofreading my own work. If the first and last letters are correct, my brain will read it as I want it to read, not the way it actually reads.

I'm good a proofreading other people's work, but my own -- it's hard.