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I'm pretty sure I read, write, and type words as glyphs. When I read the word 'word', I don't read 'w'-'o'-'r'-'d'.... 'word'! Alternatively, when skiing in J
by ISL 10y ago
I'm pretty sure I read, write, and type words as glyphs.
When I read the word 'word', I don't read 'w'-'o'-'r'-'d'.... 'word'!
Alternatively, when skiing in Japan, having only learned katakana on the plane-ride, it was less than a week before I reflexively processed 'スキー' as 'ski' instead of sounding out su-ki in my head.
- sand500 10y agoYep having taken Japanese in college, after a while you don't read letters, you read words. Basically we recognize what a word is based on the shape of the word.