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What? No of course you don't "hear" the words. How could you? Reading is several times faster than speaking, and it's not like you look individually at every wo
by jbb555 11y ago
What? No of course you don't "hear" the words.
How could you? Reading is several times faster than speaking, and it's not like you look individually at every word and read them out, you see a larger area of text as a unit.
This makes no sense. If you mentally read out every word you are doing it wrong!
- libeclipse 11y agoI get what you mean, but it's not as if you're reading it out. I'd say I read pretty fast: my eyes skim quickly across the page and I understand what is written there, but it's as if the voice in my head is reading it out to me at the same speed as I'm reading. It doesn't slow anything down.
- onion2k 11y agoIt doesn't slow anything down. That depends. Some readers do what is known as "subvocalization"[1], where they literally speak the words they're reading, but silently, actuating the muscles in their tongue and throat as if they were speaking aloud. If you're doing that then it does slow you down. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subvocalization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subvocalization
- libeclipse 11y agoNope. It's solely in my head. I don't subvocalize.
- onli 11y agoHearing an inner voice is not speaking. It is all in the head, not using the mouth. It skips over parts of words and is faster than a normal speaking voice would be. > it's not like you look individually at every word and read them out, you see a larger area of text as a unit. Of course you do. It is impossible to predict what will be the next word just by looking at one, if you don't look at each one you don't read, you skim. Meaning you won't understand anything.