Re: "Seeing" words

["Edwin Skau" <eddy -dot- skau -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Some words have a "look" or "sound" that feels just right, neutral, or all
wrong.

There are some words I am uncomfortable using because they fit into the
sentence like a bum note in an arpeggio. I use them sometimes to introduce a
little "harmonic tension",
but I wonder if it has that effect on others. I'm sure it usually doesn't;
but I use it anyway in my non-technical writing projects.

Edwin



On 3/1/06, Jones, Donna <DJones -at- zebra -dot- com> wrote:
>
> Martha Davidson wrote:
> > And some people--I'm one of them--actually do "see" the words spelled
> out
> > when people talk. It's like there's a marquee inside my head, on the
> inner
> > surface of my forehead, on which the words are projected when I hear
> words
> > spoken. Including punctuation.
>
>
> I can identify with you, Martha. If you're weird, we can be weird
> together.  :-)
>
> I grew up in a multi-lingual household (English, Lithuanian, and
> Ukrainian, primarily), but I never spoke a word of the languages other
> than English. I could understand many of the words people spoke to me,
> but I couldn't think in or speak the language without "seeing" the words
> in my mind. The few words that I did manage to remember, I spelled
> phonetically in my head. Boy, was I off on most of them!
>
> I did better in my German class in high school than I ever did with the
> languages at home because the words were spelled out in my text books.
> Had I learned to read the other languages or at least seen the words in
> print, I probably could have spoken them. Too bad I didn't figure this
> out sooner so I could have learned to speak Lithuanian with my father
> before he passed away.
>
> And for the record--no, I wasn't born knowing how to read English, but I
> learned so young that I don't remember being taught.  :-)
>
> - Donna
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