Re: Readability of scrambled text

--- Nokta Kanto <red5_2@...> wrote:
> This is spreading the web like wildfire -- it ranks
> #2 on blogdex dot net
> now -- but I'll repost:
>
> "Aoccdrnig to rsereach at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it
> deosn't mttaer in waht
> oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt
> tihng is taht frist and
> lsat ltteres are in the rghit pclae. The rset can be
> a toatl mses and you
> can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae
> we do not raed ervey
> lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe."
>
> There's clearly some potential for an interesting
> and bizarre (and
> steganographic ;) conlang here. Each word would have
> a phonetic spelling,
> but additional meaning is carried in their
> scrambling of letters. Maybe
> vowels float to the head for emphasis, or the first
> two consonants switch
> and migrate right in the genitive case. Maybe
> metaphor is expressed by
> rearranging internal letters into different words...
> the possibilities are
> endless!
>
> Any suggestions?
This explains the viability of my conlang Borg (I
deeply regret the name, but it seemed like
a good idea at the time).  In Borg, meaning is carried
on the first and last letter of the word, and part
of speech and inflection are conveyed by infixes.
It was an experiment, and I was somewhat surprised to
find how readable it actually was.

-- Terry Donnelly

http://www.geocities.com/teresh_2000/borglang.html


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