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========== I hope you’re ready to travel back in time. The year is 2003. You’re on MSN messenger, chatting to your
friends after class, and suddenly, there’s some action in your Hotmail inbox. You received a forward with this attachment: Wait – hold the flip phone. It’s a total mess and you can still read
it without a problem. Mind blown! It took this vintage email forward for a lot
of us to recognise that the way your brain consumes information and makes sense of language
is really cool. This meme, if you will, led to the introduction
of the term Typoglycemia – The brain’s ability to decipher a misspelled word if the
first and last letters of the word are correct. Now, you are likely to be familiar with 30,000
or more words and you can recognise mos...