I am confident that most, if not all of you, are aware of the Cambridge study which found:
it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer are in the rghit pcale. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit pobelrm. Tihs is buseace the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
I was thinking about this today and was wondering if a similar type of phenomenon occurs in Greek. I wouldn't think it would work with the first and last letters of a Greek word as in English, but is there a similar phenomenon? If so, do you think it could be used as a means to gauge reading fluency?
I apologize if this question has been raised before. I did a search and didn't see anything like it, though I may have missed it due to my computer incompetence.
Scrambled Greek Exercises to Measure Reading Fluency
Scrambled Greek Exercises to Measure Reading Fluency
Ἀσπάζομαι μὲν καὶ φιλῶ, πείσομαι δὲ μᾶλλον τῷ θεῷ ἢ ὑμῖν.-Ἀπολογία Σωκράτους 29δ
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Re: Scrambled Greek Exercises to Measure Reading Fluency
Try for yourself...
βουκόλος - cowherd
αἴπολος - goatherd[url=http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0642%3Abook%3D1%3Achapter%3D16%3Asection%3D1]Longus, [i]Daphnis & Chloe[/i] 1.16.1[/url] plus a little bit of section 2 wrote:‘Ἐγώ, πρέθανε, μωζίεν εἰμὶ Δάδνιφος, κἀγὼ μὲν βόλουκος, ὁ δ̓ αἰλόπος: τοτοῦσον κρεττίων ὅσον αἰγῶν βεός: καὶ λόκευς εἰμι ὡς γάλα, καὶ πρυρὸς ὡς θρέος μέλλον ἀμσᾶθαι, καὶ ἔψεθρε μηήτρ, οὐ θοίρην.
βουκόλος - cowherd
Γελᾷ δ' ὁ μωρός, κἄν τι μὴ γέλοιον ᾖ
(Menander, Γνῶμαι μονόστιχοι 108)
(Menander, Γνῶμαι μονόστιχοι 108)