misreading but not speed reading
By hereandthere
@hereandthere (45628)
Philippines
September 3, 2019 1:56am CST
i have been misreading titles more and more, both online and offline, even if i'm not speed reading.
i just had new glasses december last year.
for example, i was backreading days-old newspapers in bed (my way of preparing for sleep) and read "nagbabalik ampunan", then stopped. it means "going back or returning to the orphanage."
when i re-read the title, it was actually "nagbabalak ampunin," which means something else - "planning to adopt."
see the difference?
by the way, "ampon" means adopted, pronounced am-PON, accent or stress on the last syllable.
"ampunan" means orphanage, pronounced am-PU-nan, accent or stress on the middle syllable.
"ampunin" means to adopt, pronounced am-pu-NIN, accent on the last syllable.
i know it's the same with some words in english - the pronunciation changes even though it's based on the same root word. sorry, i just can't think of a good example to compare with right now. maybe some mylotters can share them here.
anyways, our vowels are also a, e, i, o, u, just like in english, but they are pronounced ah, eh (short e), ee (long e), oh (short o), ooh (long o). (i don't have an education degree, am not an online or offline teacher or tutor, either, so that's the best way i can explain or describe it. 
so, how many letters, consonants and vowels does your language have?
do other people find your language or dialect easy to learn?
so, how many letters, consonants and vowels does your language have?
do other people find your language or dialect easy to learn?19 people like this
16 responses
@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
3 Sep 19
it's actually easy for me. maybe because we've always been exposed to english here.
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@toniganzon (77064)
• Philippines
3 Sep 19
Could be your brain playing tricks on you and not your eyes.
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@toniganzon (77064)
• Philippines
3 Sep 19
@hereandthere Your brain must be tired or under a lot of stress. Have you considered going to a specialist for that? I have this very faint memory of knowing someone with the same condition and there's a medical term for that but I have forgotten.
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@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
3 Sep 19
it's even worse when the headline is 2 lines long. my eyes or brain would transpose the top and bottom words. sheesh. i typed "worse" instead of "words" there and had to correct it. smh!
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@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
18 Sep 19
i just noticed something today, actually - though and thought - just one letter and the pronunciation and meaning changes.
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@May2k8 (19788)
• Indonesia
4 Sep 19
@hereandthere We have that, but if you say V in my language it sounds like the letter P.
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@topffer (42155)
• France
3 Sep 19
I never counted, I stopped because your example is a spoonerism, and I thought it was about spoonerisms. Ok I am leaving
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Seriously, we have 20 consonants and 6 vowels in French if you do not count the accents, which would be wrong. With them we have 21 consonants and 21 vowels, some exist only for grammatical correctness and have not a specific pronunciation : ü and ù are pronounced the same than u for example, and it is definitely not ooooh (your u would be ô in French), but there is not a true equivalent in English, the English u being 'ou" "où" or "oû" in French.
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Seriously, we have 20 consonants and 6 vowels in French if you do not count the accents, which would be wrong. With them we have 21 consonants and 21 vowels, some exist only for grammatical correctness and have not a specific pronunciation : ü and ù are pronounced the same than u for example, and it is definitely not ooooh (your u would be ô in French), but there is not a true equivalent in English, the English u being 'ou" "où" or "oû" in French.2 people like this
@sunrisefan (28524)
• Philippines
3 Sep 19
You make a good teacher at explaining :)
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@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
3 Sep 19
i get that comment a lot when i was young and it always felt weird. how are you and your family?
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@sunrisefan (28524)
• Philippines
3 Sep 19
@hereandthere You really are good at that. We're fine here - just feeling cold despite winter being taken over by spring which, they say, carries much rain every now and then.
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@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
4 Sep 19
@sunrisefan thanks. how's the baby?
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@epiffanie (11325)
• Australia
13 Sep 19
I have been having that issue lately.. misreading the titles of articles I read.. my eyes are bad ..
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@Letranknight2015 (52665)
• Philippines
4 Sep 19
I only know a few words from my dialect but never had a chance to speak it.
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@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
8 Sep 19
we only have one dialect since our parents came from the same province and still speak it. i understand it but don't speak it.
@Alexandoy (65302)
• Cainta, Philippines
21 Sep 19
I also misread when I am scanning titles so I try to read slowly.
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@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
3 Sep 19
but they have a lot of silent letters, don't they?
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@JudyEv (381759)
• Rockingham, Australia
4 Sep 19
@hereandthere Do you mean in French? Yes, I suppose so.
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@JESSY3236 (22199)
• United States
3 Sep 19
I had hard time learning French when I took it in high school. But English is hard for some people. I sometimes misread things too. I think our brains work faster than our eyes.
@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
4 Sep 19
i would probably have an easier time learning italian than french
you're probably right about the brain outpacing the eyes
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@MarymargII (12422)
• Toronto, Ontario
8 Sep 19
My speed reading techniques have deteriorated with age but I used to be not too bad at it at school.
