h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

A sduty was dnoe smoe yares ago taht semeed to inticade taht pepole can ealisy raed txet in wihch the mlidde ltteres are jubmeld up; the thoery is taht the lerttes in the mdidle dno't mrttaer as lnog as the strat and end ltteres are in the rghit palces. Wlel, waht a laod of banoley! Let me domenstarte.

Trehe was tihs sdtuy cirared out by a bcnuh of ioidt stsictneis who wtnead to get foaums by pitrenndeg taht hamnus can usedranntd any old grisibbeh tath's weitrtn dwon. Utetr breadsladdh. Let me drastemonte.

Annoye getfid eugonh mhgit eelnvaulty uglntane tihs parpaargh, but waht pantgreece wlil fnid it itemleamidy chimpenbilroese? Cretian stincteiss wolud issint eerynove can. Anuncone yuor repetsvice sceesceuss on a pcroastd palsee.

Translation in a personal message. Don't want to ruin everyone's fun.

= 100%

It's OK - she's Welsh

Jab

re: Post 2

She's probably 100% Welsh as well

I read it fairly easily, but the last paragraph was trickier. There were a few words I had to stare at a bit longer before I could read them. Does this make me an honorary Welshman?

No, but you might be gitfed.

Gitfed? Sounds like a meal at my cousin's place.

I think it's understandable to me because my brains are equally garbled.

I suppose 75% is easily understood to me. And I'm too lazy to take time to figure out the rest.

It has instant side effects, though, I immediately type gibberish at work. Jost thought I'd let you know. I'm trying to be legible here though!

I was mostly answering the title. However, I suppose it applies to the rest as well.

"Gitfed? Sounds like a meal at my cousin's place."



"I was mostly answering the title."

And my title was mostly referring to you, Ubergeek.

I'm curious to know how many people could read it without even needing to pause or work anything out. (I.e. just how redundant *is* most of the English language?)

Trying again

I found the first paragraph easy the next 2 were harder to read though.

Figured almost all. "chimpenbilroese" still makes no sense, but undoubtedly I will slap my forehead in the morning for not seeing it decipher before my eyes.

It read easily but for 3 nonsense anagrams in the final part, they kind of trick the brain, momentarily, into thinking it's encountered a new word - rather than than a garbled known word.

I'm rather proud of 'chimpenbilroese'.

I'm not convinced you should be.

I found >chimpenbilroese< to be completely comprehensible.