Racconian Alphabet - or what's really scary...

EdBecerra · Post by **EdBecerra** » Sun Jul 02, 2006 5:45 pm

... is the fact that I looked at the banner in the second panel, absently read "Pie Eating Contest", and moved on to the end of the strip before realizing that, hey, wait a minute, that WASN'T written in the roman alphabet!

Gol-durn it, Ralph, you're corrupting me wif yer furrin' ways.

Tom Mazanec · Post by **Tom Mazanec** » Sun Jul 02, 2006 7:53 pm

StrangeWulf13 · Post by **StrangeWulf13** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 8:11 pm

Sheesh, and I thought I was gettin' fluent...

Madmoonie · Post by **Madmoonie** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 8:14 pm

Ya'll can read that? I just usually wait for someone to translate it because I no earthy idea what is says. It would take me too long to translate.

Tom Mazanec · Post by **Tom Mazanec** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 8:28 am

On the note of translating, there is something in LD on the CD (the part about Freedom Shore, IIRC) It is in big red letters. Anyone know what it says?
My problem with the alphabet is some of the letters have parts isolated on the side, and I have trouble separating them from neighboring letters. It looks like a word is one long character, to me.

EdBecerra · Post by **EdBecerra** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 1:57 pm

Tom Mazanec wrote:On the note of translating, there is something in LD on the CD (the part about Freedom Shore, IIRC) It is in big red letters. Anyone know what it says?
My problem with the alphabet is some of the letters have parts isolated on the side, and I have trouble separating them from neighboring letters. It looks like a word is one long character, to me.

Maybe that's why I'm picking it up. I'm one of those odd readers who see a word as a single glyph with a single meaning. I started reading at the age of two, and never looked back.

(Drove me nuts in grade school to hear other kids my own age reading One. Word. At. A. Time. Pausing. Between. Words. as if they couldn't make the connection from words to sentence to paragraph that seemed so NATURAL to me... maybe they're suffering from buffer overflow errror? Not enough space alloting in their internal mental buffer to parse more than a single word at a time?)

The JAM · Post by **The JAM** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 7:56 pm

We all started reading before we were 2. The first word my big brother ever WROTE was "Hershey's". Mine was "Oslo", as in Norway

Rokas · Post by **Rokas** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 8:11 pm

Frankly, I don't remember a time when I couldn't read. I mean, sure, early on, I wasn't as good, but I could still do it.

Also, pie = yum.

Madmoonie · Post by **Madmoonie** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 8:13 pm

The first word I ever really attempted to write was my name. It was mostly guess work. I knew the m's had bumps in them, so I started making bumps until I was pretty sure I was finished. Found out later I spelled my name with about 5 m's. The first word I could spell was STOP. That was fun. Repeated it to myself about 5 dozen times a day.