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SchemasSpelling is the Problem
Putting letters together into words is one of the most basic skills required for literacy. If this basic skill is so hard for so many people to grasp, then, Feynman argues, there is a problem with the way words are spelled.
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...all the time you hear the question, "why can't Johnny read?" And the answer is, because of the spell
Folksonomies: phoenetics
This Unscientific AgeBooks, Brochures, and Book Chapters>Book: Feynman, Richard, This Unscientific Age, From the Danz Lectures
Folksonomies: phoneticsSchemas
31 DEC 2010
Arguments for English Spelling Reform
This schema is a collection of arguments about how proper grammar, with its illogical and inconsistently applied rules, is used by academics and intellectuals to create a privileged class of people who's ideas deserve considering because they have successfully learned the irrational system.
Folksonomies: phonetics,grammar
Arguments for English Spelling ReformThis schema is a collection of arguments about how proper grammar, with its illogical and inconsistently applied rules, is used by academics and intellectuals to create a privileged class of people who's ideas deserve considering because they have successfully learned the irrational system.
Folksonomies: phonetics,grammar
