{"id":4567,"date":"2013-04-13T06:48:34","date_gmt":"2013-04-13T11:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=4567"},"modified":"2013-04-13T07:43:34","modified_gmt":"2013-04-13T12:43:34","slug":"jumbled-chinese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=4567","title":{"rendered":"Jumbled Chinese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I knew it wouldn't be long before someone came up with a Chinese equivalent to alphabetical <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Typoglycemia\">typoglycemia<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/~bgzimmer\/jumbled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Click to embiggen\" src=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/~bgzimmer\/jumbled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The text reads:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Y\u00e1n bi\u01ceo ji\u016b m\u00edng<br \/>\nH\u00e0nz\u00ec de x\u00f9 sh\u00f9n b\u00ecng b\u00f9 d\u00ecng y\u012b n\u00e9ng y\u01d0ng yu\u00e8 xi\u01ceng d\u00fa.<br \/>\nB\u01d0r\u00fa d\u0101ng n\u01d0 k\u00e0n w\u00e1n zh\u00e8 j\u00f9 hu\u00e0 h\u00f2u<br \/>\nc\u00e1i f\u0101 zh\u00e8 xi\u00e0n l\u01d0 de z\u00ec qu\u00e1n sh\u00ec d\u014du lu\u00e0n de.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u7814\u8868\u7a76\u660e<br \/>\n\u6f22\u5b57\u7684\u5e8f\u9806\u4e26\u4e0d\u5b9a\u4e00\u80fd\u5f71\u95b1\u97ff\u8b80<br \/>\n\u6bd4\u5982\u7576\u4f60\u770b\u5b8c\u9019\u53e5\u8a71\u5f8c<br \/>\n\u624d\u767c\u9019\u73fe\u88e1\u7684\u5b57\u5168\u662f\u90fd\u4e82\u7684<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Without rearranging, this makes little sense (except the third line, which is in the correct order).<\/p>\n<p>Here are all four lines in the correct order:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Y\u00e1nji\u016b bi\u01ceom\u00edng<br \/>\nH\u00e0nz\u00ec de sh\u00f9nx\u00f9 b\u00ecng b\u00f9 y\u012bd\u00ecng n\u00e9ng y\u01d0ngxi\u01ceng yu\u00e8d\u00fa.<br \/>\nB\u01d0r\u00fa d\u0101ng n\u01d0 k\u00e0n w\u00e1n zh\u00e8 j\u00f9 hu\u00e0 h\u00f2u<br \/>\nc\u00e1i f\u0101xi\u00e0n zh\u00e8l\u01d0 de z\u00ec qu\u00e1nd\u014du sh\u00ec lu\u00e0n de.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u7814\u7a76\u8868\u660e<br \/>\n\u6f22\u5b57\u7684\u9806\u5e8f\u4e26\u4e0d\u4e00\u5b9a\u80fd\u5f71\u97ff\u95b1\u8b80<br \/>\n\u6bd4\u5982\u7576\u4f60\u770b\u5b8c\u9019\u53e5\u8a71\u5f8c<br \/>\n\u624d\u767c\u73fe\u9019\u88e1\u7684\u5b57\u5168\u90fd\u662f\u4e82\u7684<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Studies have shown that the order of Chinese characters does not necessarily affect reading. For example, after you've read this sentence, you'll realize that the characters are all completely disordered.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The is indeed curious, but I wouldn't say that \"the characters are all completely disordered\", since in this text of 40 characters, there are only 6 instances where the order of the characters has been changed.  Moreover, the only type of change employed is simple inversion of characters that are parts of well-established disyllabic terms.  This is really quite tame in comparison with the more extreme kinds of typoglycemia that may be applied to writing in English.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what would happen if we started moving strokes around <strong>within<\/strong> characters, which might be a better analogy to typoglycemia in English.<\/p>\n<p>[A tip of the hat to Yuanfei Wang for sending me the text; thanks to Gianni Wan and Fangyi Cheng]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I knew it wouldn't be long before someone came up with a Chinese equivalent to alphabetical typoglycemia:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,114,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-play","category-silliness","category-writing-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}