Re: Letters with **three** cases?



Seán O'Leathlóbhair wrote:
> Peter T. Daniels wrote:
> > Nigel Greenwood wrote:
> > >
> > > Peter T. Daniels wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Perhaps because it turned out that the victims of ita
>
> I can add anecdotal support. One of my friends is clever but a poor
> speller, he even had embarrassing spelling mistakes in his PhD thesis.
> He blames this on having been subjected to ITA as a child.

Well, yes, perhaps: ... "victims" ... "subjected to" ... Seán's
friend is hardly a controlled study (might have been an even worse
speller with conventional learning, for example).

I don't hold a specific brief for ita, but the objections to it sound a
bit like the objections to learning to read & write Chinese using the
Pinyin transliteration. This was tried out in N China at one stage,
with the result that the youngsters quickly became literate, but were
then reclassified as illiterate when they started learning characters.
I'm afraid I don't know how they fared 10 years down the line.

Nigel

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