TYPOS be Damned!

One of the editors in my office who is always chasing me around for having the wrong type of dash had this hanging on her wall today. . .

"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. "

I couldn't believe it! All this time I have worried about typos and all I needed to do was get the first and the last letter right. . .granted only getting the first and last letter right would probably eventually lead others to conclude you have a chronic learning disability but I am not so sure I can't live with that. Perhaps I will try this in limited amounts at first and branch out. . .until I like the writer of the above paragraph write completely understandable gibberish all the time.