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Re:Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong by taeric on Monday April 17, 2023 @02:01PM (#35604235)
If it is not phonemic, what is it? It is not necessarily "regular" or "uniform" in the phonemes that are represented, but you can't consider it anything other than phonetic, as the characters represent phonemes. Pretty much period.

As said in other threads, you are not wrong that there are more direct 1:1 scripts to phonemes. You are wrong to think that is what phonetic means.

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Re:Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong by michael_j_ward on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @09:42AM (#35613879)
And in the context of discussing "whole word" vs "phonetic" systems of learning the English language, it seems like outright deception.
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Re:Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong by taeric on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @02:31PM (#35617943)
I'm assuming it isn't deception as much as it is a bit plain ignorance. I confess I have harbored the thought that English is not phonetic in the past. Is a common thing for folks to say; especially when trying to point out that English is hard.
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