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I’m not sure I understand your comment. Granted, I’m not a linguist but there is certainly something unique about the Chinese script. I don’t know a single wor
by felix318 5y ago
I’m not sure I understand your comment. Granted, I’m not a linguist but there is certainly something unique about the Chinese script.
I don’t know a single word of Chinese, but I followed a link in a sibling post and came across this: 女書 - which my meager knowledge of Japanese allowed me to understand that it means “women’s writing”.
What is the proper name for the ability to read text without knowing how to pronounce it?
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- Jtsummers 5y ago> What is the proper name for the ability to read text without knowing how to pronounce it? "literate". A person can be literate in a language without being able to speak it or understand the spoken form, it's the ability to read or write.
- felix318 5y agoThis is starting to sound like that debate between Dennett and Chomsky about whether recursion is a universal feature of languages. Linguistics is a strange field.