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Jun 14, 2012 11:41AM
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Hmmmm that was interesting and amazing how the mind works. As Debbie said, easy -peasy.
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NE! Stop that. I'm gonna wash your mouth out with soap!
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This ones easy :)"Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteers be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe."
There is a big movement in the UK to teach reading through "phonics". This involves teaching children to spell out the letters of each word and assemble the word from the sounds("c", "a", "t": "cat"). The above contributions seem to suggest that "look and say", which for many years was the dominant method of teaching in the UK, had much to commend it, since people rarely spell out words when they are reading. My suspicion, however, is that the phonic approach is good for beginners, for it helps the child who encounters new words - e.g., "Nietzsche", "hermaphrodite", "Zerubbabel" - and we all need to fall back on phonics sometimes. But look and say is what experienced readers mostly do.
One seriously must ask that without outside help and merely having been taught this way but never having seen 'Nietzsche' would you know exactly what to leave out. That is to say in isolation and not knowing the foreign nature of the word would phonics help at all.
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Not even a cryptogram that has to be written down, just read along and it comes in, so to speak within a line. Aren't humans an amazing creation.
