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Beeline is really cool! But I think your disagreement with Yale is a spat of semantics. (It doesn't help that Yale seems confused about what "phonology" means,
by gowld 6y ago
Beeline is really cool!
But I think your disagreement with Yale is a spat of semantics. (It doesn't help that Yale seems confused about what "phonology" means, as they seem to blur its modern meaning of "linguistics at the scale smaller than words" with the old meaning of "letter sounds" -- perhaps they go too far in "dumbing down" the language for the general public audience). Is it hard to track sentences across linebreaks? Sure. Is that dyslexia? It's also hard to read when you are extremely farsighted or have very low light vision.
It seems clear to me that there's a visual component of reading paragraphs, and then Beeline can help with that.
But that's a bit different from difficulty reading letters and words. Do you have research on how Beeline (or other visual theories) affect single-word or single-line reading?
I understand your frustration, though. The education and medical establishment have trouble with complexity and overlapping phenomena and spectral disorders. We see the same thing nowadays where "autism" has lot nearly all its meaning,
having grown to include anyone with any basket of symptoms, even people with easily identifiable chromosomal disorders. This happens because institutions needs single term to describe their entire educational/research program, because insurance only pays for treatment for certain blessed disorders, and because lay people need a way to communicate with other and share resources.
(BTW, it's confusing that the demo control buttons are so far from the text they affect. It took me a while to realize that the site wasn't broken.)
- gnicholas 6y agoGlad you like BeeLine! There is certainly some confusion around what exactly "phonology" refers to, and some of this is because the word has different meanings in different contexts/disciplines. Thanks also for the feedback on the demo control buttons on the BeeLine website. It was closer previously but then we redesigned things and it floated up to the top. Useful to know that we've taken a step backwards in some regards...