Scarmbled wrdos are sfipfy! Did you know...

[Jeff Waegelin]

Originally posted by IMDWalrus
It's a bit unfortunate that almost everyone was able to understand the topic title and the first two sentences, but I guess it just proves that the researchers were right. The Internet may have been the single worst thing to happen to the English language...

Honestly, I don't think it has anything to do with the internet. It has everything to do with how the human brain recognizes words. When we look at a word, we focus on the first and last letter, and sortof glaze over the letters in the middle. As long as they're there, we can understand the word. So, that's the real cause, not people being used to misspellings because of the Internet. Now, not that you're wrong about the Internet being a bad thing for the English language... but this particular phenomenon is not really connected.