Reply #12: That's a real boon to the editors of Slashdot... [View All]

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Not a one of them can actually spell. Too bad for the rest of us...

Unlike those poor monolinguals, I am a holdout for phonics. You can't possibly learn another language without learning the phonics almost right off the bat, and you're never going to read as well in your native language without them, either.

I'm also willing to bet (linguistics geekery) that this theory doesn't work in very many other languages besides English. I can already think of one language where it categorically would NOT work...hmm... Any language which operates from logogrammic or ideogrammic graphemes -- out; any language which omits certain phonemes (usually vowels) in its written form (or includes them only as diacritics) -- out; any language which uses a syllabary instead of an alphabet -- out!

This writing form also significantly slows my reading speed. I notice these things.