I've seen a variant on the letters and numbers where only consonants are used. In many instances it's possible to interpret the content almost as quickly as reading the complete words.
There are many versions of this. I found that most of my literacy students could read this kind of puzzle which I used to convince them that reading doesn't really help to improve spelling.
I must have a stronger mind than I thought. This is a subject that has come up frequently on here, with people falling out because of the difference between the written word [ especially when people are being brief ] and the spoken word, especially the spoken word when you can see the person who is speaking it. Maybe another issue that will arise with face mask wearing.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
For me the problem with misspellings, text speak, sloppy punctuation etc is that, though I almost always understand the intended meaning perfectly well, I hesitate for a millisecond over the nonconformity and that interrupts the flow of the reading.
Incidentally B3 I do not agree with your assertion that reading does not improve spelling. My gut feeling is that it most certainly does.
@BenCotto Think about three pages of names in no particular order. Do you find yours by reading the individual letters in each name? No. You look at the shape of the word and the context. Whilst scanning, you would stop at BunCrusto because it had a similar shape and move on.
Nobody looks at the individual letters in a word when they are reading.
If you are walking down the road an chance upon an aquaintance, you don't look at every individual feature of their face separately before you decide it's Ben Blotto. You look at the whole person and, provided he's not standing on the balcony with The Queen , waving to the masses, you decide it's your friend Ben. Right shape.Right context of
PS If my use of full stops offended anyone, good.😁
Although I've spent 40 years teaching spelling, I think it's a load of b****x. So long as the recipient can decipher the text, who cares? Unfortunately, assumptions are made about intelligence, class and education so we have to play the game. I tried to make sure that my students knew the rules and conventions.
I don’t know about ‘accepted’, Lyn, but most certainly encountered. Friends who work in that sector (Leicester, Loughborough, Cambridge, DMU) frequently comment on standards, the one from DMU, a professor in the School of Business, is especially scathing.
B3 I understand your arguments but I still firmly believe that reading reinforces in the mind letter patterns. The other day I had occasion to spell Rockefeller, a word I don’t think I have ever written before, but of all the letter configurations only one ‘felt’ right. How did I know that? Through reading, surely.
'Felt right' - a motor skill. Try mis-spelling your surname in cursive writing. People with a facility for conventional spelling will, of course, be able to identify and remember unusual patterns.
Can someone explain the joy of heucheras? I just don't get them😕
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There are many versions of this.
I found that most of my literacy students could read this kind of puzzle which I used to convince them that reading doesn't really help to improve spelling.
This is a subject that has come up frequently on here, with people falling out because of the difference between the written word [ especially when people are being brief ] and the spoken word, especially the spoken word when you can see the person who is speaking it.
Maybe another issue that will arise with face mask wearing.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Incidentally B3 I do not agree with your assertion that reading does not improve spelling. My gut feeling is that it most certainly does.
Think about three pages of names in no particular order. Do you find yours by reading the individual letters in each name?
No. You look at the shape of the word and the context. Whilst scanning, you would stop at BunCrusto because it had a similar shape and move on.
Nobody looks at the individual letters in a word when they are reading.
If you are walking down the road an chance upon an aquaintance, you don't look at every individual feature of their face separately before you decide it's Ben Blotto. You look at the whole person and, provided he's not standing on the balcony with The Queen ,
waving to the masses, you decide it's your friend Ben. Right shape.Right context of
PS If my use of full stops offended anyone, good.😁
Sadly, I suspect it is.
Unfortunately, assumptions are made about intelligence, class and education so we have to play the game. I tried to make sure that my students knew the rules and conventions.
B3 I understand your arguments but I still firmly believe that reading reinforces in the mind letter patterns. The other day I had occasion to spell Rockefeller, a word I don’t think I have ever written before, but of all the letter configurations only one ‘felt’ right. How did I know that? Through reading, surely.
People with a facility for conventional spelling will, of course, be able to identify and remember unusual patterns.
Can someone explain the joy of heucheras? I just don't get them😕