Fine, so I don't know what color the dress is. But at least I can read this. Can you?

[CalMeacham]

@Flywheel

It’s a spoof of an old advertising campaign for secretarial school: “f y cn rd ths, y cn gt a gd jb.”

My favorite comment on this – according to one report someone put the following graffiti on that old ad (which shows you how far back it ran):

fk nxn

[thelurkinghorror]

This looks like a variation of this:

Aoccrding to a rereasch at Camgridbe Urivensity, it deosn’t mtater in waht odrer the lertets in a wrod are. The olny irpomtant tihng is taht the frist and lsat leettr be in the rgiht palce. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wtihout a proelbm. Tihs is besauce the hmuan mnid deos not raed eevry lteter by iteslf, but the wrod as a wlohe.

Spoiler: not true.

[MrsTime]

No problem

[OneCentStamp]

0 my g0d w3 4r3 n0w f4c3800k.

[RivkahChaya]

You don’t read letter by letter, you read word shapes. That’s how it works.

I’m still working on the question my son asked when he was four: “How come we understand what Blue [the cartoon dog] is saying?”

[Grrr]

@RivkahChaya

You don’t read letter by letter, you read word shapes. That’s how it works.

I’m still working on the question my son asked when he was four: “How come we understand what Blue [the cartoon dog] is saying?”

Brain Games did an episode explaining that. (Not Blue specifically but speech recognition.)

[Hari_Seldon]

I could read it easily as long as I didn’t try to. Soon as I actually looked at it, it was gibberish.