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Subject:Re: I like thru From:Louise Penberthy <louise -at- PRAVDA -dot- CC -dot- GATECH -dot- EDU> Date:Mon, 22 Aug 1994 16:05:54 -0400
In article <332h4n$9c8 -at- bbs -dot- pnl -dot- gov>, Robert E. Allen <re_allen -at- pnl -dot- gov> wrote:
>[.....]
>I suspect this is an educationally induced condition. I tend to read
>entire words, only looking at the individual letters when I don't
>recognize the word. Maybe I should have been born in a country
>with a pictographic language--China anyone?
It is not educationally induced. It just means that the reading
portion of your mind is working normally. :)
Seriously, reading entire words is the norm for fluent readers.
Seeing entire words is the norm for fluent signers, by the way.
-- Louise Penberthy
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