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A bit off topic but the other day I was working with a youth who when agreeing with something I'd said kept using the phrase 'true that'. Now being an old git this was starting to grate a little so, jokingly I told him to stop it as it was really annoying. He went up in my estimation a lot by turning to me and saying 'true that'

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It's even harder than this....

 

I cnduo't bvleiee taht I culod aulaclty uesdtannrd waht I was rdnaieg. Unisg the icndeblire pweor of the hmuan mnid, aocdcrnig to rseecrah at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mttaer in waht oderr the lterets in a wrod are, the olny irpoamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rhgit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whoutit a pboerlm. Tihs is bucseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey ltteer by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Aaznmig, huh? Yaeh and I awlyas tghhuot slelinpg was ipmorantt! See if yuor fdreins can raed tihs too.

 

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If you all want to experiment writing text like this, I have created a page on my website (did it years ago) that does all the swapping around of letters in the words. Try it out, and send mails to your friends all jumbled-up: Word Jumble

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Your grandad is still alive and you said wiv and is instead of with and his your under 25

 

That was what I was aiming for, but I am of the older generation that gets irritated by the repetition of LOL :cursing:

 

All my grandparents have gone. They would of shaken their heads in dismay at the lack of proper english usage, even though they spoke broad Yorkshire, which we now have to buy dialect books to work it out.:banghead:

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