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Sorry. I just found it amusing, that here we are, using the English alphabet (a descendant of the original Phoenician alphabet) talking as if phonetics as a re
by GregBuchholz 10y ago
Sorry. I just found it amusing, that here we are, using the English alphabet (a descendant of the original Phoenician alphabet) talking as if phonetics as a reading aid is a new phenomena. But the whole reason the Phoenician alphabet became so popular 3200 years ago was it's use of symbols representing spoken sounds.
- 13of40 10y agoMaybe the point is that deemphasized the phonics technique for 3000 years and focused more on lessons like this: https://books.google.com/books?id=E-diAAAAcAAJ&dq=reading&pg=PA14#v=onepage&q=reading&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=E-diAAAAcAAJ&dq=reading&pg...