I am not saying that spelling mistakes are unforgivable because no one is perfect and certainly this includes me.
I make mistakes too. However, when I pretend to be a story writer, I double check my spelling to make sure that I have written down what I meant to say because I am not native to the English language either.
As for the fraudulent claim that a British Academy published the alleged research, I am confident that no such thing ever happened and it is simply an Internet joke.
People whether native to a language or not make mistakes all the time and we all make context efforts to figure out the corrections but some of us get confused failing to accomplish that.
I found merit in the joke where the human mind should be praised for solving small riddles such as scrambled words to make them make sense. That is why the posters to this thread including me have found it interesting “as a phenomenon” because we are all RPG players who just love solving riddles.
This by no means makes the allegations of an academic research, which is obviously a false allegation, become true. A primary reason is that the name of such an academy is omitted from the claims because it never existed.
That was my whole point in refuting the contents of the original post, which was in the E-mail of many of us as well. It was meant as a joke and not a serious discovery, so let us encourage good writing and discourage bad writing. There are many superb jokes that are very well spelled too you know.
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