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NWR: who needs spelling bees competitions?? Spelling is... - 6/29/2008 1:17:25 PM   
Serge Birbrair

 

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RE: NWR: who needs spelling bees competitions?? Spellin... - 6/29/2008 3:49:33 PM   
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Status: offline 		That was amazing!  After 20 seconds or so, I trained myself to read at nearly normal speed and comprehension.  I do believe that the context of a sentence makes a difference though.  If the words were mixed up so there was not sentence structure or message, the mind cannot help anticipate the word.  So, on Wheel of Fortune, the most important letters to know are not vowels or consonants but the first and last letters of each word.

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RE: NWR: who needs spelling bees competitions?? Spellin... - 6/29/2008 3:51:58 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Mtracy

That was amazing!  After 20 seconds or so, I trained myself to read at nearly normal speed and comprehension.  I do believe that the context of a sentence makes a difference though.  If the words were mixed up so there was not sentence structure or message, the mind cannot help anticipate the word.  So, on Wheel of Fortune, the most important letters to know are not vowels or consonants but the first and last letters of each word.


M, check my responce in your oxymoron thread. Can you guess WITHOUT blushing what I realluy meant!?
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RE: NWR: who needs spelling bees competitions?? Spellin... - 6/29/2008 5:27:43 PM   
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Status: offline 		Haha, this little thread gives the the freedom to make lots of typos on my TNs with impunity now.

What about a spell check function Eric?

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RE: NWR: who needs spelling bees competitions?? Spellin... - 6/29/2008 9:52:45 PM   
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ORIGINAL:  After 20 seconds or so, I trained myself to read at nearly normal speed and comprehension. 


Easy pickens, so I won't 

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