How language is written does matter.

"Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe."

Does this text seem familiar? It has been doing the rounds in the emails across the world. So much that, one of my *research minded* friends had printed this piece and put it up on his desk for all to see. I was at his desk and told him that the research is utter crap and that it is purely a function of how well are you able to read a language and how easily the language is written using characters. If he did the same with most native Indian scripts, the research would go for a big toss! I also told him that the research has used a passage that is very friendly for itself to prove its point. English language is replete with examples that defy the same logic.

Obviously, I could not add much to my retort. I am not a researcher of the English Language or any related sciences. But someone who is a researcher has analyzed it and has presented his findings in his page. I was more than amazed to read that my initial remark was more or less the final conclusion of the analysis. Most importantly, read the part after "Update 2".

So, it does matter how the language is written. Else you would have been able to read this post as fast as you actually did, and understood it as correctly as this post actually intends to.