You've probably heard that you can scramble the letters in the middle of a word and still have it be legible. If not, have a look here.
So, I wrote a program that takes some text and does this "legible scrambling" thing to it. Then I wrote another that finds all the words in the dictionary that are identical under this scheme (e.g., blisters = bristles).
Then I tried to come up with some phrases that made sense with these words under both interpretations.
All the utendeinnd cdoe soulhd be deetled.
How mnay aeimrs are bteetr arimes tahn orus?
How can I get psat this seucitry ssyetm woiuhtt altnierg it?
The bbay bebalbd, and the ttalte tlae blbbead.
I don't konw if I wnat to eat tohse bedared prok cpohs.
What haenpped to the breoodm in this reoatshinilp?
No, ofifecr, I neevr cvread that woamn.
I don't crae aubot cosairvneotn, but that deson't mkae me a jrek.
Aetfr that guy was freid, the hhuteanerds ate him up.
I saw an inecst the otehr day, and I tughoht it was gsros.
I don't reivle the psat if I can hlep it.
I'm bieng cahesd by a rgoue ssaalmen.
It's hrad, snotiohg a hrsoe wtih a bkeorn leg.
We're not pruod of snnopoig, but we fgriue it's fnie as lnog as we're not seen dniog it.
I haerd he lkies snipnoog wtih his wfie, but ndoboy's seen tehm dniog it.
That guy uesd to be a bggaer, but now he's manngiag.
He wnet arnuod twon wtih a bluge in his ptnas for yeras, but nboody menteonid it to him.
If you hover over the linked words and look at the link, you can tell what the world is supposed to be. The ambiguous words are actually two links--one for each word they match.
I can imagine making a block of text that tells a story with very different meaning depending on how the ambiguous words are read. From there, maybe you can determine something about the reader. For instance, whether you read "inecst" as "insect" or "incest" might be telling.
Unfortunately, I've been too lazy to go to all that trouble, so I'm just dumping this "research" here so it doesn't get completely lost. Let it not be said that I don't contribute to the community.
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