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*sigh* fine, fine, i'll be the new doctor who showrunner. bring me two twinks, britain's tallest woman, and 1000 pounds worth of alumininamian foil

markovchaingang

no country for chopped uncs

dreamclutter

battlecrazed-axe-mage

The linked article

massivetittiesandwarcrimes

This article is genuinely insane. I learned to read at the same time and it was completely different. I was taught to sound out the words and if I came across a word I didn't know, they did suggest we use context clues to figure out the meaning, but it was also made clear that that was not a perfect solution and the best option is always to look it up. But seriously, just a memorizing? That is inside.

auxryn

I taught English as a second language for over ten years. In order to become a proficient reader in English, most kids will need to be explicitly taught phonics. To become proficient in Japanese, you need to learn radicals.

Three-cueing is essentially crutches that help you get by but let you down eventually. It's very common when learning a foreign language, I misread kanji sometimes because I pattern-recognize based on context instead of really looking. The solution is to do some proper studying, but I don't wanna.

It's also interesting that this sort of contexual confabulation and pattern-recognizing is how LLMs work. Not sure what to do with that.

thechekhov

Absolutely fantastic article, but I do want to say that this...?

... Is absolutely terrifying in the context of all other anti-intellectualism happening right now. This guy is STILL pushing his 'observations' while denying evidence that it doesn't work.

quasi-normalcy

#the part where he says it doesn’t matter if a child reads horse instead of pony bc the meaning is the same is.. particularly dire 💀#it’s immediately obvious that this doesn’t work as soon as books don’t have pictures in them ???

Good thing that there aren't any texts where subtle differences in meaning are important or anything like that.

batmanisagatewaydrug

Tumblr being the "piss on the poor" reading comprehension site makes sense when you realize that 79% of adults in the US are functionally illiterate. Same goes for Twitter and TikTok.

that's a real high number, sport. where'd you get it?

batmanisagatewaydrug

hey anon

please tell me you didn't google "US literacy rates" and then make the funniest possible mistake one could make in that situation

null-is-sparing-you

Okay that would be a funny mistake, but it *does* imply Anon did do their research. So credit where credit is due.

batmanisagatewaydrug

I'm gonna be real with you: picking the top result from a google search, not questioning at all whether a for-profit organization with a vested interest in selling their reading programs is a trustworthy source, still immediately misreading your findings, and leaning heavily on US-centricism for their argument isn't the kind of research I'm giving a lot of credit for. that's like, D- work. barely engaged with the assignment.

fadinggardentyphoon

Grace Jones delivering at a concert in 1981 at the Lion Country Safari in Irvine, California. Photo by George Rose.

heateron

after hours (1985) dir. martin scorsese

sweetheartdrunk

ethel cain live in edinburgh ♡

@tankhall ♡

whtegardenias

@tankhall in gdynia by me

zoloft-barbie

sunday best @tankhall

my first attempt at digital art Lol be nice

tankhall

ryan-sometimes

My favourite Da Vinky twins trans ally moments:

When they said their pronouns are they/them because there’s 2 of them

“It doesn’t matter what your pronouns are, because at the end of the day, it’s night”

multibodied

Usually I hate when people online base their whole character around being dorky on purpose, but Da Vinky twins are the only exception to this rule. They're self aware and just genuinely funny, my favourite of them is this video when they're like "People often ask us if we're only acting like this on camera, so today we'll find out. For that we only need to turn off the camera" and then they turn the camera off and the video ends. This is the funniest shit and I adore this joke so much.