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Not sure if this is worth the effort, but brilliant approach to learning. I've often had fun playing with inventing my own alphabets and stuff -- if you could a
by houshuang 15y ago
Not sure if this is worth the effort, but brilliant approach to learning. I've often had fun playing with inventing my own alphabets and stuff -- if you could actually learn to read this font at a decent speed, it would be fun to click a bookmarklet anytime you wanted some privacy :)
I love reading, and I read pretty fast - I've often thought that the existing approach in most textbooks where they give you a short (5-10 line text) with tons of new words and grammar, and then when you're done working through that, give you a new one with a ton of new words, is non-ideal. Once I'm done learning all the new words, you should give me five pages with text that only uses the words I've already learnt, to "fix" it - and to give me a feeling of mastery...
- trogdoro 15y agoVery interesting thoughts! > it would be fun to click a bookmarklet You can grab a bookmarklet for this at dotsies.org (the blue button).
- random_letters 15y agoCould you make this bookmarklet toggle between regular/dotsies?
- trogdoro 15y agoThat could probably be done. What's the use case? Maybe if you think of a good plot for the http://dotsies.org/game http://dotsies.org/game I'll take a stab at it :)
- technolem 15y agohow's this for an idea, inspired by this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxX_bVluflo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxX_bVluflo it would be an investigation into a world that got turned into dots, or something. That way you could have lots of dotsies font all around, and a bunch of text slowly turning into dotsies for practice. You might also consider color coding the letters so that you have an additional channel of hints that you can toggle on and off. To make the reader have a more gradual slope.
- twfarland 15y agoThis is a really nice idea. Reminds me of Guy Steele's 'Growing a language' talk (http://video.google.de/videoplay?docid=-8860158196198824415 http://video.google.de/videoplay?docid=-8860158196198824415) and generally of building a formal system by combining primitives.