Re: Mental Block of Word Spellings

Jennie

As far as reading skills and vocabulary go, I'd have to attribute it to be an avid reader as a child. I still have somewhere the strip we had in 1st grade with a little construction paper or something cut-out book representing all the books I read. I don't recall really learning to read. Just seems I could.



JAM wrote:
No matter how many times I look up the definition of some words, I
always pause when they come up in a transcript, no matter how many
YEARS I have spent looking up the same doggone words.

Here are a few that keep me going back to the dictionary time and time
again:

immanent, eminent, and imminent
vein, vain, and vane [I'm sure you MT's have no problem with this one
;>)]
reign and rein [Thankfully, I don't have to look up the meaning of
"rain"]
discreet and discrete
obeyance and abeyance

Several years ago on this NG, somebody posted up a link to a test of
word meanings. Most of the MT's in this NG achieved high scores.
However, it was me, I think, who got the lowest score, on the bottom
rung with 17 wrong out of approximately 50 words. :>(

I was just transcribing a meeting about education, how important the
need is for elementary schools to go back to the three R's, which
happened to be reading, writing, and arithmetic. ["Three R's?," I was
thinking to myself] ;>)

One example was expressed in the transcript about a young college
student who could not write well without the aid of spell-check on the
computer. She had little knowledge of spelling, grammar, and
punctuation, and her writing skills set was very poor and not at a
college level.

It seems that today, students are leaning on software to do the work as
opposed to learning, much like how the calculator use has prevented
students from learning arithmetic from the bottom up. Some students
today are unable to multiply, add, subtract, and divide without the
calculator, sad to say.

I am curious as to how you MT veterans of this NG acquired your
vocabulary skills. Would you attribute your knowledge to years of
transcribing, a good early education, or reading books on a frequent
basis? Thanks in advance for any and all replies! :>)

Jennie
Washington, D.C.

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