A poet slips

[A. Katz]

Well, everything is hard if you start too late. But if you start almost 
simultaneously in both directions in different languages, then, in my 
experience, it's not a problem.

    --Aya



On Thu, 30 Sep 2010, john at research.haifa.ac.il wrote:

> For learning to read for the first time, obviously it doesn't make a difference.
> But once you've learned to read in one direction, it's tough to start reading
> in the opposite direction, particularly if you've started late in life. I
> know from personal experience.
> John
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> Quoting "A. Katz" <amnfn at well.com>:
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>> Ron,
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>> Most of what you said made sense to me. I am not familiar with the revival
>> of Arabic and would be happy if you posted a link for all us Funknetters
>> on this topic. It makes sense to see different versions of the langauge as
>> gradient.
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>> One thing you said, though, struck me as weird. "Despite the right-to-left
>> direction...." You're not seriously suggesting that RTL or LTR makes a
>> difference in ease of reading, are you?
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>>     --Aya
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>> http://hubpages.com/hub/My-Grandfathers-Voice-Recordings-of-Benzion-Katz
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