The human mind can read sentences even if the characters are scrambled as long as the first and last letter of each word stays intact. Here is a PowerShell function to try out for yourself. It takes a sentence and scrambles the characters except for the first and last characters:
function Convert-Text { param ( $Text = 'Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.' ) $words = $Text -split ' ' $newWords = foreach($word in $words) { if ($word.Length -le 2) { $word } else { $firstChar = $word[0] $lastChar = $word[-1] $charLen = $word.Length -2 $inbetween = $word[1..$charLen] $chars = $inbetween | Get-Random -Count $word.Length $inbetweenScrambled = $chars -join '' "$firstChar$inbetweenScrambled$lastChar" } } $newWords -join ' ' }
When you do not submit text, a sample sentence is used. Can you guess what it means?
PS C:\> Convert-Text Ealry to bed and erlay to rsie maeks a man hylhtea, wlhtaey and wies.
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