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rosequartz Sat 18-Oct-14 17:15:03

Yes, I could read it and very quickly too! I don't think that means I am clever, pmpoa (just very used to deciphering dreadful handwriting for years!).

It reminds me of the sketch with Morcambe and Wise and Andre Previn where all the right notes were played but not necessarily in the right order!

granjura Sat 18-Oct-14 16:04:55

To be really clever, you have to be able to read a similar text in a foreign language, lol grin

HollyDaze Sat 18-Oct-14 14:54:52

Yes, I could read that too. Then again, the amount of handwritten text I've had to decipher over the years, it's not that surprising to find that bit easy grin

Charleygirl Sat 18-Oct-14 14:40:59

Very easy to do.

glammanana Sat 18-Oct-14 11:49:37

Easily read, thats my brain power exercise done for the day. grin

Ana Sat 18-Oct-14 11:42:05

I can't believe that only 55% can read that.

henetha Sat 18-Oct-14 11:29:29

Very easy... what a clever lot we are!

Elegran Sat 18-Oct-14 10:10:17

They don't need you to understand it, just to follow the link to see what on earth it is about. It has caught your attention, hasn't it? That is what spammers want.

FlicketyB Sat 18-Oct-14 10:02:03

Yes, but what proportion of the population can read it? 90% understanding it 10% not has very different implications from 10% can 90% can't

AlieOxon Sat 18-Oct-14 09:57:09

Hey, I type that very easily! Then take as long to do the corrections....maybe I don't need to bother?

annodomini Sat 18-Oct-14 09:48:12

I've received a few of those emails and never had any problem reading them, hardly noticing the difference. But then I was an English teacher for 40 years and have read my share of gobbldygook.

Teetime Sat 18-Oct-14 09:44:29

So now that I know I'm brilliant what shall I do with this knowledge?

ginny Sat 18-Oct-14 09:21:44

I read it easily. There's hope for me yet.

Elegran Sat 18-Oct-14 09:14:08

It is just all the right words, in the right order, but each one anagramised. Anyone can work it out, and if you have solved it, take a look at my (sadly neglected) thread of cyphers ("Cyphers from 70 years ago" in "Other subjects")

The half-term stuff was random rubble, organised into what give the appearance of sentences. No-one could make sense of that in a month of Sundays.

Nelliemoser Sat 18-Oct-14 09:09:45

I found it OK. Getting letters in the wrong order comes with my dyslexia. My brain can spell most things, double consonants give me trouble, but my hands cannot easily write letters in the right order. I have to think about each letter as I write it.

ninathenana Sat 18-Oct-14 09:09:21

Yes I can, it reads like normal text to me smile

Soutra Sat 18-Oct-14 08:55:27

Looks not unlike most of my typing but as a teacher gobbledegook poses no challengesmile

rubysong Sat 18-Oct-14 08:49:00

No problem! I think everyone can, it's just designed to make us feel a bit clever.

shysal Sat 18-Oct-14 08:25:41

Easy peasy!

kittylester Sat 18-Oct-14 08:22:40

Well, I could read that easily but I still can't read all those half term ones! grin

pompa Sat 18-Oct-14 08:17:24

if yuo can raed tihs, you hvae a sgtrane mnid, too.
Can you raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.

i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs forwrad it.


If you can read this, your brain is 50% faster than those who can't