[LMB] OT: hearing spelling

[Tzivia Adler]

>> brain telling your fingers that this is what the word 'sounds' like.
>
> I... never really got how that works, actually. I guess I'm a much
> more visual person? Or perhaps because English wasn't my mother
> tongue...
>
> little Alex
> -- 

there is a page, or paragraph of text i have to type.  i always thought it 
went straight from eyeballs to fingers, but apparently i am actually reading 
it to myself and typing the sounds i 'hear' instead of what i am reading. 
so 'pregnancy' would be typed 'precnancy'.

speech therapists could explain to you* how people prounounce letters 
differently depending on what other sounds are before and after it. 
apparently by brain makes the same chagne whether i am speaking or not ** 
and sends the /changed/ sound to my fingers instead of hte original 
spelling.

regional pronunciations, which took up most of this (surpisingly long) 
thread, are a different but related topic.

ziviya

* one tried to explain it to me.  then her friend got in on the act.  i 
ended up pretty confused about how the whole thing works

** i don't speak while reading anymore :)