Same here. I don’t even remember learning the alphabet or learning how to read. Just remember reading, by 4 could read regular books. As a result, I often knew the meanings of words but not how to pronounce them. Spent childhood going to and from the library plus we had a lot of books at home.
I bet a lot of freepers learned how to read early.
Yes. I too could read regular books by age 4 or 5. In first and second grade I was youngest kid in class but so far ahead I was bored. I wasn’t ahead in maths tho.
I bet a lot of freepers learned how to read early.
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While I suspect that most FReepers are very smart, I know that the average child is just incapable of reading at 4. He can be extremely bright, but the brain just isn’t properly organized yet for reading. You were in a special group.
I often knew the meanings of words but not how to pronounce them.
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Me, too! True to this day. I try to be conscious of my audience and substitute vocabulary to suit. My husband is often standing behind whomever I’m talking with, making an ‘over-their-head’ sign. Same in my own writing....have to be aware of the characters’ knowledge base.
On the plus side, I rarely need the thesaurus. I do use the Urban Dictionary a lot, though. Slang and word meanings on the street change so quickly and vary by geographic location.
Yeah, I’m sure we’re a precocious bunch. Or were. ;)
Laughing, because I was the same. I could figure out the meaning of words way before school, from the context of the story and the sentence. But, words I had never heard I didn’t know how to pronounce.
So, many decades ago, before I started school (and phonics). My father asked me to get him something in the other room. Like a little miss smarty pants, I said... “what do you think I am? your slav?
Remember, this was before phonics. My parents started laughing at me as soon as they realized that I meant slave.