Those kids in your class in elementary school that seemingly never figured out how to sound out words?

@Muthafukajones interesting, so you were basically taught to think of similar but slightly different sounding words to find the correct pronunciation?
I’d imagine the usefulness of it declines over time, as most people get older the likelihood that a word which you can’t pronounce correctly by reading would be one you’ve heard before decreases

@Zeuro You have start somewhere. I remember thinking as a child how hard it would be to remember the spellings of every word. Practice makes it second nature no matter what language you speak.

@Muthafukajones if only english were more phonetic. Did you know that the only languages with more convoluted spelling rules are the Celtic languages?

@alicewhite *birds aren’t real

@Zeuro is the word bird double unreal then?

@alicewhite
Huh?

@Zeuro Whoa... why am I the one getting yelled at? It's harmful because it creates a reliance on some made-up language that has no basis in reality or practicality is all I am saying. I think you can agree that time spent learning a real language would aid in spelling, reading, and proper pronunciation.

@Zeuro It's just so unnecessary when there are real languages to learn, use, and advance with.