I read voraciously as a child, several years above my age and won the school spelling competition aged 9, 10 and 11 so yes, reading helps with spelling and word recognition and construction. Possum, a very late baby, is of a generation that hardly reads, prefers visual media for story telling and whilst she has a decent vocabulary - given she is bilingual - can't spell English to save her life and gets me to proof read her French essays and documents which says a lot about French grammar teaching in schools.
I can easily decipher things like your "idiot speak" above B3 but I do find I get distracted and even cross when reading books whose author cannot always construct a sentence with the clauses or even the adjectives and/or adverbs in the right order - it can change the meaning - and whose Editor has not corrected the errors/mistakes/ambiguity.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Not everybody's brain is wired in the same way. The fortunate, will be able to spell whatever hare- brained/ hair-brained (??) method is applied . If you're interested , have a look at this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1523708.stm
The ability to spell is very odd. My autistic granddaughter, aged 8, reading age 16, has dysgraphia; she can spell a word out loud, but when she tries to write it, she gets lost in the middle. Her typing is much more accurate.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Picking runner beans and sweet peas has become a bit hit-or-miss since the rowan blew down on top of them... I'm trying to see it as an adventure rather than getting too curmudgeonly about it.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
I was on a course once where the speaker purported to be an expert on dyslexia. I asked her whether writers of Chinese script had the same problems. She said she had never thought about it. How could you study the subject and not even consider different writing systems? @Liriodendron I can sort of relate to your grand daughter's problem. I can look at a sum and get a rough / good enough for me answer. But if I try to work it accurately out on paper, it gets scrambled in my arm before it reaches the pen😵
'The caves showed evidence of continuous human habitation dating back 46,000 years.
Rio Tinto's chief executive Jean-Sebastien Jacques will lose a total of £2.7m.
Chris
Salisbury, chief executive of iron ore, and Simone Niven, group
executive of corporate relations, will lose payouts of more than half a
million pounds each.'
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
A few executives lose this year's bonus but how much more will they make over time from the results of their actions. There should be an immediate permanent ban on any mining / extraction operations in that area.
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I can easily decipher things like your "idiot speak" above B3 but I do find I get distracted and even cross when reading books whose author cannot always construct a sentence with the clauses or even the adjectives and/or adverbs in the right order - it can change the meaning - and whose Editor has not corrected the errors/mistakes/ambiguity.
If you're interested , have a look at this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1523708.stm
She said she had never thought about it. How could you study the subject and not even consider different writing systems?
@Liriodendron I can sort of relate to your grand daughter's problem. I can look at a sum and get a rough / good enough for me answer. But if I try to work it accurately out on paper, it gets scrambled in my arm before it reaches the pen😵
'The caves showed evidence of continuous human habitation dating back 46,000 years.
Rio Tinto's chief executive Jean-Sebastien Jacques will lose a total of £2.7m.
Chris Salisbury, chief executive of iron ore, and Simone Niven, group executive of corporate relations, will lose payouts of more than half a million pounds each.'