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> When you're reading a book, you don't sit there and say, "Well, what does that word mean? What does that word mean?" After many sightings of the words in your
by goblin89 14y ago
> When you're reading a book, you don't sit there and say, "Well, what does that word mean? What does that word mean?" After many sightings of the words in your vocabulary, your recall is immediate and very, very good.
But there's still ‘inner speech’, which appears to slow down meaning recall. It seems to be a habit of many people, although I don't have hard data to support this. I've heard that unlearning sub-vocal reading in favor of visual reading helps increase reading speed and remember the information. Haven't had much success with this myself so far, it needs some patience.
(I suppose phonetic writing system also adds to the problem. How cool it would be if you could read the meaning from symbols, instead of doing letter combination matching.)
- neeee 14y ago>(I suppose phonetic writing system also adds to the problem. How cool it would be if you could read the meaning from symbols, instead of doing letter combination matching.) Isn't this what visual readers already do, by recognizing whole words, or even groups of words at the same time? Observing myself reading, it seems like that's what I do.
- goblin89 14y agoThanks for correcting, I'm not sure how I arrived at that point—it seems to me I too recognize word at a time. However, I'm not a visual reader as I understand the term: unless I consciously attempt to suppress my inner speech, I silently “pronounce” each word, which slows down the process. I'm trying to imagine using a writing system in which how a word is written has no connection to its pronunciation, representing only meaning. That would pretty much make inner speech impossible, among other things.