Re:Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong
by taeric on Monday April 17, 2023 @12:21PM
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If it was not phonetic, what "idea" would the letter "r" represent? That it can represent different phonetics depending on other rules doesn't change that it represents phonetics.
Re:Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong
by nkrisc on Monday April 17, 2023 @01:00PM
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> the graphemes do not represent phonemes, despite your claims.
I now suspect you have a fundamental misunderstanding of what a phoneme is.
What does the symbol “c” represent, if not two different phonemes?
The letters in the English script represent sounds. Do you disagree?
If English was truly phonetic, to name a few examples again: the pronunciation of "are" would most likely be a prefix of "area", since the graphemes for "are" are present in "area"; "read" and "read" would be read the same, since the graphemes for "read" and "read" are identical; the words "freak", "steak", and "break" would end with the same phonemes, since the graphemes for "eak" suffix are identical... and so on.