Can you read this?

[skywords]

Tihs noes far yeu Nick

Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.


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 dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the
ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is
taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae.
The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it
whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos
not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a
wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling
was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs forwrad it

 

[Tullamore]

I cna raed ti!

 

[Series3Scott]

me too! or is that em oot? no wait, me oto

 

[skywords]

You guys must not be in the 55% catagory. I skimmed right over it and understood every word. The first and last letter for some people are all that is required to understand the words. O well

 

[Bill Blue]

I can read it, but not "fluently". Have to think on some of the words. Hard to believe some people cannot read it at all unless English is a second language.

Bill

 

[Nickodell]

Yse, I cuold rede itt. I tinhk.

 

[Alpine Bob]

Inst taht the way its sppsuoe to be?

 

[Nickodell]

What do these sentences have in common?

Women understand men; few men understand women;

Bores are people that say that people are bores;

You can cage a swallow, can't you, but you can't swallow a cage, can you?

Girl, bathing on Bikini, eyeing boy, finds boy eying bikini on bathing girl.

 

[Bill Blue]

What do these sentences have in common?

Women understand men; few men understand women;

Bores are people that say that people are bores;

You can cage a swallow, can't you, but you can't swallow a cage, can you?

Girl, bathing on Bikini, eyeing boy, finds boy eying bikini on bathing girl.

They were all submitted by Nickodell.

Bill

 

[tony perrett]

You can't really call them palindromes, can you?

 

[jack Bacon]

can

Eye red threw it kwite kwiklee & ezilee

Jack

 

[Nickodell]

You can't really call them palindromes, can you?

Yes and no. A palindrome is a word or sentence that reads the same forwards or backwards. However, to be exact they were word palindromes as opposed to letter palindromes. A true palindrome sentence would read exactly the same from right to left, sort of a mirror image. An old example:

Able was I ere I saw elba (might have been spoken by Napoleon Bonaparte

However: Madam, I'm Adam, (when he met Eve?) and Was it a cat I saw? are cute but not true word palindromes at all, as you have to split and recombine letters to read them backwards.

 

[tony perrett]

...........a man, a plan, a canal, Panama.

 

[jack Bacon]

f

Yes, like racecar

Jack

 

[JConstable]

The paragraph was a cinch - even the kids (11 and 13) handled it. As for the palindrome, I have to advertise my favorite even though it does not express my view of the world.

Live o devil revel ever live do evil

John

 

[skywords]

The paragraph was a cinch - even the kids (11 and 13) handled it. As for the palindrome, I have to advertise my favorite even though it does not express my view of the world.

Live o devil revel ever live do evil

John

That's a great Avatar John

 

[Nickodell]

I also like:

Yreka bakery (there is a Yreka in California)

"Norma is as selfless as I am, Ron"

Was it a bar or a bat I saw?

James Thurber might have been thinking of Noel Coward's "Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun" when he penned: He goddam mad dog, eh?

Even the heads of some countries had palindromic names: Lon Nol (Cambodia), U Nu (the late Burma), Laval (The traitorous premier of France in WWII).

Sex at noon taxes (makes increasing sense as the years pile up)
One of the hardest tasks is to combine one palindrome with another. One example: I moan, Naomi. Add that to the last one and get: "Naomi, sex at noon taxes," I moan

There have been many attempts to write palindromes longer than 50 letters that make any sense. One good one:

Doc, note; I dissent. A fast never prevents a fatness. I diet on cod."

If you discount making sense, but stay within the rule that the words have to be real English ones, and no abbreviations, it's unlikely that anyone will ever beat this one, of over 1,000 letters:

Flee to me, remote elf - salad Ewan desired;
Now is a Late-Petal Era.
We fade: lucid Iris, Red Rose of Sharon;
Goldenrod a silly ram ate.
Wan olives teem; ah, Satan lives!
A star eyes pale roses.
Revel, big elf on a mayonnaise man,
A tinsel baton-dragging nice elf too.
Lisp, oh Sibyl, dragging Nola along;
Niggardly bishops I loot.
Fleecing niggard notables Nita names,
I annoy a man of legible verse.

So relapse, ye rats,
As evil Natasha meets evil
On a wet, amaryllis-adorned log.
Norah's foes' orders (I ridiculed a few) are late, Pet.
Alas! I wonder, is Edna wed?
Alas, flee to me remote elf.

 

[skywords]

How a bout,

Nattering Neybob of Negitivisim

 

[napa 1]

My 9 year old twins, 3rd grade, both read it with ease, except the words they didn't already know like Pehnonemal and Camdribge.

 

[Nickodell]

How a bout,

Nattering Neybob of Negitivisim

I don't get it. What's it suppose to be, Rick?