Re: CHAT: dyslexia
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, March 29, 2001, 2:25 |
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Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
> *Somewhere* I read (and my friend did, too) that people actually read
> logographic systems like Chinese somewhat faster because the translation
> goes directly from shapes to word-in-head, rather than shapes to sounds
> to word-in-head.
Interesting. I could see that. I know that confusions like
"there/their/they're" tend to slow me down, because I have to go back to
figure out which was intended. So, that suggests that there's a
shape-to-word transition there, and I'd imagine it would be quicker with
logograms.
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