#reading000

[mysticdragon3md3]

One reason I won't pick up a book is that I already have my 2 favorite characters, jumping around in my brain, so why read about new characters when fanfics will focus on my favs? 😅

But also, I've dropped manga for veering off to focus on side characters, when I jumped on board for the deuteragonists.

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[mysticdragon3md3]

[mysticdragon3md3]

Recently, I heard that reading education had changed from recognizing phonetic symbols and sounding out words, to inferring what a new word might be from the context clues of accompanying pictures and other previously recognized words??????? What??????

I can't stop thinking about all the fantasy and scifi novels I read as a kid, especially during elementary and Jr high. Those genres make up so many names, it's an inside joke now.

I once read a book where the alien was named Tsynq Yr (because the alien had possessed an Earth skunk). How will kids get that joke without being able to sound out new words????

How will they read fantasy genre's word salad names??? How will they learn load words from other languages??? Old books with words rarely used in modern conversation????????? Our alphabet is phonetic so you can learn new words on your own! This whole inference learning is a terrible idea, and I could barely believe it's been going on so long.

(I must have left school just in time.🍀)