[senco-forum] reading asoft

The passage you quote is an internet meme; it has absolutely no basis whatsoever in research.  It is, however, a striking example of people believing something because they 'feel' it is right, rather than it actually being so!

I can read most of those 'scrambled word' passages with very little difficulty, but I am a very highly skilled, experienced reader with a penchant for doing anagrams.

http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/~mattd/Cmabrigde/

I'm not sure what your point is about 'conventional' v 'phonetic' spelling.   'Phonetic' spelling just takes us a bit longer to work out because the sounds in the word are spelled in an unfamiliar/unexpected way.  If we had been reading pre-spelling standardisation text we would be prepared for the variation in spelling and decode rather faster (without the momentary "oh, that's spelled wrong but it 'says' xxxx," hiccupp in processing the word).

(NB The meme you passed on does not contain any phonetic spelling) 

Maggie 

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