[kj] OT How does the mind work?

[FLIGHT BRINGER]

Well i understood from the beginning that Japanese read by not reading all 
the characters, but because i dont know enough Kanji to read newspapers, i 
ve never been able to put it into practice . I ve always wondered how its 
possibly to read a newspaper without reading all the words, I understood  
the theory behind it,  but found it hard to understand how they could 
actually do it, if  you see what I mean. But reading the misspelled post , I 
could grasp the way the Japanese read.
  What reading the misspelled post and reading Japanese have is common is:
They both use the same method of not reading every single letter/Kanji. They 
both just  read parts of the text and use their intuition to understand the 
rest.


>From: Jim Harper <jimharper666 at yahoo.co.uk>
>Reply-To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the 
>band!)"<gathering at misera.net>
>To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)" 
><gathering at misera.net>
>Subject: Re: [kj] OT How does the mind work?
>Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 01:56:18 +0100 (BST)
>
>That's your *opinion*. Whether I accept it or not has got *nothing* to do 
>with my grasp of Japanese. As you said in your first post, you didn't 
>understand how the Japanese could read so quickly until you read about that 
>Cambridge research, so clearly this idea is not something you were taught 
>as part of any Japanese studies. Don't try and use it to put down my 
>knowledge of Japanese.
>
>FLIGHT BRINGER <flightbringer at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
>   How is your reading ?
>Do you understand that when you are reading kanji , you don't read every
>individual word/ Character? That you second guess half of them and there
>fore don't have to read them?
>
>http://www.flipsidemovies.com
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