Allegedly, on or about 03 October 2014, Ian Malone sent: > This is not correct: > Across. > Receipt. > Accept (!?) > It's not universally how letter sounds are taught in any case. Letter > names are not the same as sounds. > > If you have a point about 'capital letters' it's more that the letter > sounds are less variable when they're initial sounds, but those don't > have to be capital. Otherwise We Would Write Like This. Writing like a Windows Moron Programmer Who Doesn't Understand The Grammar of Writing Sentences In The Pop-Up Windows, is yet another thing. The method I outlined, is how reading and writing has been/was taught here for many many years. Of course with English, there are many exceptions to the rules, but the sounding out of how each letter is supposed to be said, gives the clue as to how to pronounce the word, in general. If you know the phonics of each letter (ah, buh, cuh), which are known as the sounds of the lower case letters, you can work out how to say most words that you haven't encountered before. If all you know are the names of each letter (Ay, Bee, Cee, Dee), which are what everyone calls the capital letters, you cannot use them to work out how to say a word. Try it, for the word "human," take the individual letters and sound them out, "huh" "you" "mmm" "a" "nnnn," then do it again faster and running the letters into each other until you get "h u m a n". You'll sound like HAL9000 learning to speak, as you do each letter slowly, then merge them into a word, but you eventually get there. You cannot get the word "human" from "aitch+you+em+ay+nn," it's not even the slightest bit close enough to it. That's the difference between learning the sounds of each letter, or simply the names of each letter. It's the sounds you need to learn first, when you're learning to read and write. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments. ZNQR LBH YBBX -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
