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Valerie Sutton Date: Thu May 13, 1999 5:26 am Subject: Re: learning to read | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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> Absolutely. Very interesting! We do the same thing in English, >for example: many Midwesterners pronounce "pen" the way I would pronounce >"pin." If they read aloud, they would pronounce a "short i" in that word, >but they would still get the same meaning. > > > -Angus B. Grieve-Smith > Linguistics Department > The University of New Mexico > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Yes...and this gets into the issue of "standard ways of writing a sign", or "standard spellings". Once, a long time ago, we had a discussion about "sizes" of symbols. Someone asked me why we wrote such large SignWriting symbols, and I explained that generally beginners seem to need a large size and then later we can read at smaller sizes. One of the reasons we can read SignWriting at very small sizes is that certain "sign spellings" have become standardized, and our brains have memorized how they will be written. So reading at small sizes becomes easy when you have internalized how certain signs are "spelled". The other day, when working on the Advanced Goldilocks document, I reduced the size of the writing - and when I read the smaller size I realized that it was less strain on my eyes to read the small size. That was a revelation! Why would the smaller size be easier to read? In English, fluent readers do not want to read huge type - there must be a reason! Valerie :-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Valerie Sutton SignWriting https://www.SignWriting.org The DAC, Deaf Action Committee for SW Center For Sutton Movement Writing an educational nonprofit organization Box 517, La Jolla, CA, 92038-0517, USA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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