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Comprehension = A Vital Part of Communications

As I was recently pondering human communications in my doctoral studies, I came across something that made me ponder "words" as we think about them.  So in this blog post…  I ask you to take a moment to see if you can read (these words put together in an uncomfortable way):

Research says only some can: fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too.

Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.
i cdnuolt blveiee taht20I 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!
 
Communications and comprehension… are something to think about huh?  Could you do read this?  What do you think?  Ryan Sauers
 
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