While we know that many companies sending spam misspell key words in the title and body of the message to trick the spam filters, did you know that it doesn’t matter to your brain? My mother-in-law forwarded this email to my wife, which in itself it a type of spam. But for the first time in years, she sent something worthwhile. Read the message below, and you will find out how come misspelled spam still works.

[More Brain Stuff . . . . From Cambridge University.]

Olny srmat poelpe can raed tihs.

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 deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm.

Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs psas it on!!

Psas Ti ON !

So, according to this, you could build a little dictionary algorithm that switched internal lettering of each word, but left the first and last letter alone, and beat all the spam filters that are set to catch unique words or word combinations.

Things that make you go Hmmmmmmm.

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