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I think they are referring to the way many (most?) people read most words - recognising the shape rather than reading the individual letters. Presumably if your
by misnome 8y ago
I think they are referring to the way many (most?) people read most words - recognising the shape rather than reading the individual letters. Presumably if your language contains several common and unique long words you quickly start to recognise the shape and so no longer need to read the letters.
- Tomte 8y agoYes, I understood that. But the hyphenated parts are also words (if you're hyphenating intelligently), so you recognize their shapes just as well, probably even better.