On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 01:31:24 +0200, Chris Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Ed, > >This is what most of my posts are like until I let the spelling checker >loose on them. > >This is very interesting when considered together with the big arguments >surrounding the teaching of reading in the recent past in the UK. Actually >it's probably still going on but it's not so much in the news. On one side >are those who say children should learn to recognise whole words and on the >other are those who say they should build their understanding of words from >knowing what the letters sound like - and then apply some imagination! > >Chris Mason > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Ed Finnell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Monday, 26 June, 2006 9:50 PM >Subject: Re: English (was Mainframe Limericks > > >> >> In a message dated 6/26/2006 9:17:00 A.M. Central Standard Time, >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> >> right rite wright(as in playwright) >> >> >> >> >> >> Yeah I found it. This more how the physiology works that they language. >> Non-English speakers may have to work a little harder, but I doubt it. >> >> >>From Cambridge >> >> O lny srmat poelpe can raed tihs. >> >> >> cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. >The >> phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a 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? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was >> ipmorantt! if >> you can raed tihs psas it on !! > 'It is a damn poor mind that cannot think of more than one way to spell a word.' -- Andrew Jackson jmc ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
