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Peter T. Breuer which was a widely discussed hoax and only work with very common and short words in redundant sentences. Try your approach in any scientific paper and you'll fail...
That is not at all surprising.
I did a communications course recently, and in one of the exercises, they did the exercise of having us count the 'f's in a sentence that we had only seen for about 10 seconds.
The counts were remarkably wrong.
The count started, of course, with the words starting with "f."
Words with a pronounced "f" at the end appeared next most likely.
People were most to completely miss the word "of" because: a) There's no pronounced "f" sound in it, and b) The word "of" is largely noise, in running text.
The latter should not be misread. I'm not saying that it is unimportant to include "of" in all of the places where it belongs, but rather that it seldom is one of the words expressing the vital facts of a text where it is used.
Looks not a hoax to me! It plainly works. See experiment above. Try your own ... Uh, I simply wrote naturally, then jumbled the letters. I made no attempt to concoct the text...
If you dropped out all instances of such words as "of," "is", "it", and such, from a text, you would still be entirely likely to be able to properly understand its sense. In much the same way, eliminating punctuation or capitalization would not eliminate meaning.
I don't necessarily approve of doing such things; I found Iain M Banks' Feersum Endjinn, replete with Bascule's phonetic abbreviations to be excruciatingly painful. It was still readable... -- Rules of the Evil Overlord #53. "If the beautiful princess that I capture says "I'll never marry you! Never, do you hear me, NEVER!!!",
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