I have a little puzzle for you. Don’t worry, it’s easy. You can figure it out. 🙂
See if you can figure out what the following puzzle says. It’s in English! Really, it is! Following the puzzle is a hint. If you need help, read the hint (but not the answer). When you want to check that you’ve solved the puzzle correctly, then you can check the answer.
PUZZLE
O cen nut omegoni why yua moght nut bi ebli tu andirstend thos!
Ell yua hevi tu du os ripleci iech vuwil woth thi vuwil thet pricidis ot, whiri thi littir ‘a’ pricidis thi littir ‘e’ (will, nut qaoti, bat thet os thi ginirel odie).
Hevi yua gut ot fogarid uat yit?
Thos os yuar lest chenci.
HINT
If you didn’t mean to read this far yet, you better lift your eyes in a hurry!
Ready or not, here comes the hint: Try reading it aloud and you might recognize some of the words. Maybe it wouldn’t be a bad idea to consider the title of this post, too. 🙂
SOLUTION
Here comes the solution. So if you don’t want to read it yet, look up fast. All of the consonants are correct. The vowels are correctly positioned, but each vowel has been changed. More precisely, each vowel was replaced with the vowel that follows it. For example, ‘a’ was replaced with ‘e,’ ‘e’ was replaced with ‘i,’ and so on; also, the ‘u’ was replaced with ‘a.’
For example, the word ‘idea’ becomes ‘odie.’ Note that one sentence from the puzzle has a phrase that reads, “where the letter ‘u’ precedes the letter ‘a,’” in which the ‘u’ changed to ‘a’ and the ‘a’ changed to ‘e.’
I thought about changing the ‘u’ to a ‘y’ and the ‘y’ to an ‘a,’ but only when the ‘y’ makes the vowel sound, but I decided to keep things simple. 🙂
If you had to read the solution to figure out how to solve the puzzle, it isn’t too late to see if you can now translate the puzzle text.
ANSWER
Following is the translation of the puzzle text using the technique described in the solution. Don’t read the following text unless you are ready to check your answer.
I can not imagine why you might not be able to understand this!
All you have to do is replace each vowel with the vowel that precedes it, where the letter ‘u’ precedes the letter ‘a’ (well, not quite, but that is the general idea).
Have you got it figured out yet?
This is your last chance.
chrismcmullen 
Wow. That was freaky. It was like a switch went off halfway through the first sentence and I read it clearly. I didn’t even realize what I was doing or how the words were changed. Very cool.
That’s what I was hoping would happen, at least for some puzzlers. 🙂
Burgundy and Puzzles… What a concept..!! Actually reminds me of an Agatha Christie plot… twisting.. turning.. omitting.. changing.. adding.. switching.. etc.. etc.. Yet.. so clearly simple at the end.. WELL DONE..!! Now.. back to my Burgundy
That’s a great analogy, and an interesting combination. Thank you for the kind words. 🙂
That was fun! 😀
I’m glad you enjoyed it. 🙂
It amazes me how the mind works to fill in the gaps or fix something “odd” so that we still get the information that we need. We’re more remarkable that we realize.
Cheers to you. 🙂
I don’t understand how our brains can decipher that but it easily does .
I tnhik i’ts knid of lkie rarreganig the ltetres wiehl kepenig the fsrit and lsat the smae, lkie tihs. 🙂
Yes I think so!
gr8 …thats how brain works in amazing ways!!!
How the brain works is fascinating. 🙂
it is so, also in part because English is an easier language for this particular task…I suspect most Latinate languages to have similar puzzle-worthy features.
Et ellmsot rid loke Tarkesh, wath e hont ef Aytaylian. Iye anjeyed et.
Putting word puzzles in different languages sounds interesting. I wonder what kind of fun puzzles one could make with hieroglyphics… 🙂
Thet wes konde fan tu sulvi…
actually this is similar to what people with a bawarian dialect sound when they speak english…
When I tried sounding it out, I was wondering if there may be any particular accent or dialect that kind of fit. Thank you for the suggestion. 🙂