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Words Are Weird
By Unknown
Feb 18, 2004, 09:05 PST




meme

This little paragraph has been making its way around the Internet, but for those of you who have not read it, give it a shot!


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.


This is a meme. A meme is an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture. That’s what’s happening when you go to your inbox and find several emails with the same jokes or messages in them. People post stuff all of the time as experiments to determine how fast the message will spread and to see where it ends up. This one’s engaging enough to have made its way onto hundreds of websites in a matter of days. Weird huh?



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