Groaner's Corner [was:EMINEM]

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Wilse wrote:

PS If this works, it'll be my first post anywhere on the web from my A1. Fingers crossed.......  :-D

:pint: Congratulations, sir!

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;-) I notice them.  It is correct that most people read with the "whole word" method.  This is also how Chinese characters are read.  This ability comes naturally from reading for years and years.  Almost every word that you encounter is one you've read before, and recognize.  This also lets you make out which bus is approaching, even though it's too far away for you to make out the lettering if it said anything unfamiliar.

Unfortunately, in our school system some optimists decided that children would get to this stage of reading ability sooner if the curriculum skipped the stage where children are taught to sound out the letters of the word.  This resulted in today's situation where children read familiar words quickly and unfamiliar words not at all.

:roll: Hardly an improvement.

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@Seehund:

:roll: My hat's off to you, sir; that was terrible.

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Wilse wrote:

@Seehund:

That was the groaner to end all groaners. :pint:

;-) No, sir, there'll always be more.  To wit:

:-? Did I ever tell you guys that in Panama the cockroaches were so big that we used to ride them to school?

;-) And the mosquitoes!  One day, my brother and I returned home from the theater and there were two mosquitoes sitting in the armchairs.  One turned to the other and asked, "Well, should we eat them here, or take them home?"  

The other replied "Let's eat them here; if we take them home, the big kids will take them from us."

:roll: of course, we thought they were joking about there being bigger mosquitoes, until one of them landed at the airforce base the other day.  Those recruits on duty pumped about 300 pounds of fuel into him before they noticed that his markings were wrong...

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 :-o Noooooo!!!

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@ Wilse:

:roll: Ba-Doomp-boomp, tshing!

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;-) That's akin to not seeing the forest for the trees, then.  Poor dear.