--- Nicholas Bodley <nbodley@...> wrote:

>
> Peter wrote:
>
> "Whole word" "vs." "phonics." Both, of course, are
> necessary, with the
> emphasis on phonics, since it gives you 87% (whence
> the figure?) of the
> language and 100% of the uncommon vocabulary.
>
> [NB] Somewhere along the line, homophones became
> utterly and totally
> neglected. Phonics, as a practical matter,
> apparently pays no attention to
> homophones at all. I'd add a 0% to Peter's
> statistics. Apparently, the
> process goes "text to phonetic form, keep in memory
> as phonetic, and
> later, phonetic form back to text".
>
> I recently discovered that there are several
> homophone checkers for
> computer text preparation.
>
> Indeed, I just re-read "both...are necessary", and I
> never dismiss Peter's
> comments casually.
> But, then, why was I so lucky, when I had no
> whole-word training at all?
>
> <risk mode>
> At the risk of seeming conceited, I think it's
> interesting to tell that on
> a few occasions I have opened to a new page of text
> with few or no
> graphics, and within a second, spotted a
> typo/misspelling. It seems like
> some sort of ESP, not that I'm an ESP nut, but not a
> deny-er (denyer?
> deny�r?) , either.
> </risk mode>
>
> Spelling challenge, for electronic technicians and
> others -- Spell
> correctly:
>
> Te[]troni[], famous oscilloscope and TV studio
> equipment maker
> Harm[]n []ard[]n, famous maker of home audio
> equipment
> Litt[]fu[]e, well-known maker of small electrical
> fuses
>

--Reply 1--
Tektronix
Harman Kardon
Littlfuse (?)

> For upstate New York residents, spell the name of
> Ren[]s[]l[]r County.
> (It's Dutch.)
>

--Reply 2--
Rensselaer, NY--near Albany, its state capital.

> Btw, I suspect that long names, such as
> Fianarantsoa, are likely to be
> spelled correctly, because almost everybody has to
> slow down and be
> careful with them! Nevertheless, Haroutunian became
> corrupted to
> Hadoutvnhal. (Too lazy for double quotes. Should eat
> breakfast.)
>

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