Re: off tiopc

Paul Burke <paul@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in news:3u5h2lFvhf81U1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

> Dope mcSmoke wrote:
>>
>> I've seen it in Swedish, too.. worked the same. Are japanese words put
>> together the same way (kind of phonetically) as latin lanuages do?
>
> The non- ideographic scripts are syllabaries, so the words tend to be
> shorter.
>
> The whole thing ought to be a clincher in the argument among
> educationalists between phonetic and whole- word reading.

I think this is irrelevent to "learning" readers, and only works on
"experienced" ones. Similar to mores code. I needed to hear and interpret
every dit-dah. (I can't even do thet now.) A decent ham just hears "word
patterns" in context, and would ignore minor "errors".


> Though, of
> course, I doubt if anyone has used that particular text to teach 5 year
> olds to read. We had to make do with a text that started promisingly,
> "This is ***", but went downhill from there.
>
> Paul Burke

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