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396 points smartmic | 1 comments | 26 Jun 25 19:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source
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nick238 ◴[27 Jun 25 04:11 UTC] No.44393641[source]▶
In non-phoenitic languages, i.e. English, many of these methods are painful, especially "Last is First". See "I", but then it's "In", so you need to mentally backtrack some understanding. See "t", but then it's "that", so if you're subvocalizing to read, you need to reform the phoneme because 't' is a different phoneme from 'th'.
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1. pmontra ◴[27 Jun 25 18:24 UTC] No.44399059[source]▶
A short word like "that" is read at once, especially because it's common. So no need to backtrack.

A less common word like "phoenitic" or "subvocalizing" is read as you say. However by the end of the sentence we know how to read "phoneme" because we encountered it 3 times in one form or the other.