Bee Season: The annual spelling bee brings out protesters as well as nerds

[Gordon, Matthew J.]

What is your basis for claiming "Paulescu says that he believes
inconsistent phonetic spelling 'causes' dyslexia"? Is he a friend of yours or did he say this in print? I thought the article I cited was pretty clear about causation.

-Matt Gordon


-----Original Message-----
From: American Dialect Society on behalf of Tom Zurinskas
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Subject:      Re: Bee Season: The annual spelling bee brings out protesters as              well as nerds
 
Thanks Matthew for the quote, but what does "deep orthography" mean.  It
basically boils down to inconsistent spelling in terms of letters
representing sounds.  What Paulescu has said is that this brings out
dyslexia and that's why there are twice as many folks labeled dislexic in
English speaking and French speaking lands.  Paulescu says that he believes
inconsistent phonetic spelling "causes" dyslexia.  He is in favor of
simplified English spelling.

I'd like to see truespel applied to mild dislexics to see how well they can
read it.  It could be a test of just how much decoding words into speech is
a problem.

Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
See truespel.com - and the 4  truespel books plus "Occasional Poems" at
authorhouse.com.

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