Reading

[magid]

On Google's home page they have a link to "Froogle." It took me ages to figure out why they'd named it that, since my first instinct was to link it to "Fraggle," as in "Fraggle Rock", rather than "frugal." Which says to me that I'm an extremely visual reader, not aural. Figuring out sounds like that takes too much time, and is too distracting from the content of what I'm reading, which is part of the reason I think it's so hard for me to read poetry, which so often relies on word sounds (if only just for meter). And why certain kinds of word play are easy, while others are much more difficult. Interesting. I wonder if it also relates to why I find it hard to read plays.


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[cellio]

I find that I tend to just mentally file (longer) proper names in books for later pattern-matching, and then I'll find myself in a discussion of the book and not always recognize names right away. Oops!

[magid.livejournal.com]

I've not sounded out names in books a number of times, and it's been ok most of the time, except with certain Russian novels, where lots of people have the same initial, but different names, plus each person has a variety of names. Er, which is to say that I have a habit of keeping track of unpronounceable names by their first initial, which sometimes doesn't work.

Not so relevant: I still vividly remember reading aloud in junior high and running into the word "prewar". Which I pronounced "proo-er". And was laughed at a bit, since everyone else could see it was "pre-war". I still think it makes more sense to have a hyphen in the word.

OK, this is the first time with the new comment reply interface, and it makes sense having the post and the thread all there. Nice. Er, as long as it works, that is.