Re: OT: Conlangea Dreaming

Robert Hailman wrote:

> I find that I read English kind of like people who are fluent in Hebrew
> tell me that they usually end up reading Hebrew: Rather than looking at
> each letter, the just look at the overall shape of the word. It's more
> important to have that skill for Hebrew, because you don't have the
> vowels in most circumstances, but the English spelling system provides
> so little insight into the pronounciation of some words that I find a
> handy skill to have.
Not so long ago on a newsgroup I frequent (and where I first met Irina) I
took part in a thread about education systems around the world. One
aspect of the discussion concerned the fact that Australian schools, by
and large, spend very little energy in teaching techniques for reading,
operating on the policy that most kids pick up the skill naturally.

Deja references:

http://x75.deja.com/[ST_rn=ps]/threadmsg_ct.xp?AN=674603335.1&mhitnum=??

Replace ?? with 47, 49, 51 for my primary contributions to this aspect of
the thread.

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