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To: neverdem
Just another of those "grasp of the obvious" studies on which someone wasted big bucks...

The difference is in the language -- not in the form of dyslexia. The brain function required to comprehend this:

is radically different from the function used in interpreting this:

"way"

...
10 posted on 04/11/2008 7:07:06 AM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias...!!)
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To: TXnMA
"The difference is in the language -- not in the form of dyslexia. The brain function required to comprehend [kanji] is radically different from the function used in interpreting "way".

Frankly, I'd think that "dyslexic" would have no counterpart in Chinese because it would require misplacement of complex symbols/images rather than individual letters/sounds.

18 posted on 04/11/2008 4:31:03 PM PDT by norton
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To: TXnMA; CholeraJoe; SunkenCiv

The idea of reading Chinese characters backwards or out of sequence fairly moggles the bind.


19 posted on 04/14/2008 7:49:21 AM PDT by wildbill
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