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A Slashdot article appearing last Monday, which reported on the claim
that scrambled
words are legible as long as first and last letters are in place,
was circulated to the University of British
Columbia‘s Linguistics department. An interesting counter-example
resulted:

“Anidroccg to crad
cniyrrag lcitsiugnis planoissefors at an uemannd, utisreviny in Bsitirh
Cibmuloa, and crartnoy to the duoibus cmials of the ueticnd rcraeseh, a
slpmie, macinahcel ioisrevnn of ianretnl cretcarahs araepps sneiciffut
to csufnoe the eadyrevy oekoolnr.”

As demonstrated, a simple inversion of the internal
characters results in a text which is relatively hard to decipher.
— Slashback
9/25