Alternate-Universe Grammar

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Grammar rules are necessary to provide some sort of logical coherence in writing.

Ruled grammar am usefind ergo provision semi species Plato-style stickiness scratchdown.

Grammar Rules are important not because we think of them, but because we don’t. Grammar rules are so intrinsically printed into our language and cultures that we hardly ever think about them except when they are directly violated.

Ruled Grammar am Executivey naysay ergo-sum uswe ergo-compute equally une, counter-ergo donaysaydo; Ruled Grammars am print-in-ergo-sum-enter uswe talkintype, ergo-add danceinsing thisthere uswe rocklike ergo-infinite ergo-compute topic-ergo-sum une ergo-set-violate placetime straightforward damaged.

As you can plainly see from my rather alien examples, grammar is important for us to communicate on a readily understandable playing field.

Ergo-sum youself flatgrassland eyelook origin-source selfthing semi-self green-martian specimen-ergo, grammar equals Executivey source-send uswe goplace blabtoothers standontop soongonnago equal-equal-equal squash court.

Sorry to those of you that are bothered by bad grammar or spelling errors. If you are in this category please skip my reply.

This was sent to me a while back.


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Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch 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 ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a
toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae
we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.

very interesting indeed, monastic. i have known for a long time that i read in "chunks" rather than in words - a line, lines or even short paragraphs at a time. now i have another part of the answer, "why?".

i suppose it should have been obvious, your example, that is - hw wd txt msgs wk otherwise?

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For some reason, this reminds me of the time-travellers' verb conjugations in The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy...

I still like this rebuttal to the scrambled word meme, found via Slashdot a while back:

"Anidroccg to crad cniyrrag lcitsiugnis planoissefors at an uemannd utisreviny in Bsitirh Cibmuloa, and crartnoy to the duoibus cmials of the ueticnd rcraeseh, a slpmie, macinahcel ioisrevnn of ianretnl cretcarahs araepps sneiciffut to csufnoe the eadyrevy oekoolnr."

Hint: If you can't figure it out, reverse everything but the first and last letters in each word.