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> Uppercase doesn't distort shapes It distorts the shape of the words. Many people recognize many words as a whole, not by checking each letter in (eg) "the".
by D-Coder 6mo ago
> Uppercase doesn't distort shapes
It distorts the shape of the words. Many people recognize many words as a whole, not by checking each letter in (eg) "the".
- crazygringo 6mo agoDistortion is the wrong term to use. Yes, all-caps and lowercase have different word shapes. This is something that slightly slows down native or highly experienced speakers (readers), because they have so much exposure to reading the language that they use the word shape to help. This is not something ESL students are doing to any appreciable degree. They have not put in the 1000's of hours of reading in the target language to read even faster by identifying word shapes. That is a level of optimization they are nowhere near.