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This was so good the first time but nevertheless welcome back to Earth !! (mebbe ya should make more of an effort to keep up here?)

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Regards ......... Rheilly Phoull

I'm a part time or semi retired designer my other job now is farming so I don't visit here much till the crops are drilled or winter sets in. I hadn't seen it before yesterday, just goes to show what sheltered lives farmers live :) Regards Anthony

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My daughter thought I was being mean when I gave it to my Vietnamese wife, she read it very easily and only stumbled on phenomenal and Cambridge. I was suprised and amazed.

Mind if I use your example in a book I'm writing (with appropriate credit)?

regards Dirk

It's astonishing. Albeit hardly new.

I wonder if it works for non-native english speakers ( readers ).

Graham

fnord!

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Dirk

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Yep!(holland)

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There _is_ the requirement for a priori knowlege of the word,
however.  For example, "Aotnhy Wdordligode" is untranslatable
without knowing that it\'s supposed to be " Athnoy Wildgodrode".

Does the smae phenomenon happen in other written languages? I mean, you're talking about reading scrambled English, right? So I wonder if, for example, it would work in Dutch or French or German or Spanish. It'd be really interesting to rearrange some Katagana or Hiragana. ;-) (Japanese syllabaries, not that I can read it.)

Cheers! Rich

Of csoure you may, I cnonat cilam cidert tuohgh as it was snet to my wfie via eiaml. I dnot konw the oirgontar. It semes taht its been going rnuod for smoe tmie. Atnohy

I'm danish and I can read it just fine, but I also read much more english than I read danish so it may not mean much.

-Lasse

Well, Kanji is characters derived from Chinese, where each symbol represents something - I hear that they're supposed to memorize like

6,000 of those things (and a Chinese typewriter is something that has to be seen to be believed), but Katagana and Hiragana are syllabaries, like, "ah, ee, oo, ay. oh, bah, bee, boo, bay, bow, ka, kee, coo, cay, coe, dah, dee, doo, day, doh, fah, fee, foo, feigh, foe... I'm sure you get the idea. There's not much distinction between "L" and "R", as we all know quite famously. (google "engrish" ;-) ).

Cheers! Rich

So, tell us - are the Scandahoovian women as hot as they always look on US TV?

Thanks! Rich

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. 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 Dick", but went downhill from there.

Paul Burke

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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".