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Post by John Parry on Nov 12, 2008 20:41:26 GMT -5
Pretty amazing at first glance. And read it two or three times and you get better and better at it...
"I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid. Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh?"
Not sure where it actually gets you, but it may go some way to explain why posts that have obviously been made very late at night are actually understandable even to sober people!
Regards - John
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2008 21:32:37 GMT -5
John:
Your last paragraph is unreadable.
Wayne
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Post by Randy on Nov 12, 2008 22:34:04 GMT -5
Hah!!!
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Post by Andrew on Nov 12, 2008 23:47:34 GMT -5
John, looks absolutely perfect to me!! much better punctuation than most of my posts!
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Post by mickeyobe on Nov 13, 2008 5:45:18 GMT -5
Jhon,
Ist rlelay plniaulfy duifcflit way to tpye a lnhetgy lteetr.
Mekicy
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Post by PeterW on Nov 13, 2008 7:23:53 GMT -5
John, Your last paragraph makes perfect sense to me (hic!)  I remember that quite a few years ago someone in the US carried out similar research and came to the conclusion that we read by word recognition and not by individual letters. He decided to try out his theory by teaching young children to read long before they learned the alphabet and the sounds of letters. I think his name was Glen Doman, and he published a popular book called Teach your baby to read. He used what he called flash cards. A word would be written on the card, usually familiar things like Mummy, Daddy, table, chair and so on. These would be held up in front of the child for a few seconds while the word was said to them. After a time the child learned to associate the word with the object, recognise the word and say it when the card was held up. The next stage was to add a qualifying word using two cards, such as my Mummy, my Daddy, the table, the chair and so on. Then, if I remember rightly, it moved on to altering one or two letters in the word, such as the cat sat, on the mat, funny Mummy, and then went on to short sentences. Recognising the sounds of individual letters, the different sounds of ou in words like cough, enough, and bough, and the same sound for f and ph came later. Doman also wrote books such as Teach your baby maths and Develop your baby's intelligence. His books were very popular in the 1960s and 1970s but I haven't seen them about for a long time. Anyone remember them? Valerie and I tried his reading system with our daughter Emma when she was about three years old. She loved what she called her word game, and was reading simple children's books fluently by the age of five. Our son John didn't take to it, but his son Luke did, and now at age seven Luke's reading is two stages ahead of the rest of his class at school. What's holding Luke back at school is his handwriting. He hates writing and says it's much easier to type words on a computer keyboard. A computer-age child! PeterW |
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Post by Randy on Nov 13, 2008 12:03:56 GMT -5
My favorite story was by the late Archie Campbell. It was called "Beeping Sleauty", and another of his stories was called "The Pee Little Thrigs". Victor Borgia also did stories with jumbled letters.
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Post by John Parry on Nov 13, 2008 19:52:10 GMT -5
Mickey,
I think you'd have to write a computer program to do it properly, and it wouldn't be much use as everyone could read it anyway. Anyone else have a hiccup with 'research' ? They put two ch's in, which made me do a treble take!
Peter
That's how I learned to read. Mrs Brennan (the baby intake teacher, and the only non-spinster teacher in the school), used to hold up cards such as you describe. If you got them right you got a dolly mixture. I got them right P.D.Q !! In the next year, Miss Sutton complained that my reading wasn't developing quickly enough. Turned out that I'd given up on Jill, John and Spot, and as my mother suggested to Miss Sutton, I did pretty well when invited to read the mediaeval knights section of the Children's Encyclopaedia...
Randy
Those are Spoo-nerisms and slightly different. Absolutely brilliant for getting kids to really think about the make up of words. You should also make jokes about their names to get them to really be able to throw words around. My daughter Nadiah soon had it shortened to Nads (much to the disgust of her mother!). And saying Nadiah quickly, it became Naja, and then Nadge, and finally Najoleon. Her best friend Vicky became Vixen, and Vicarage. Words should be fun!
Regards - John
ps Dolly mixtures are sweets, and sorry about the spelling (arch.)
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Post by alexkerhead on Nov 17, 2008 11:46:44 GMT -5
I gssue tshi mnaes I no lgnoer ndee to slepl pperorly! YHEA!
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