Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>]

Vadim:

I have dyslexia, so I never could do speed reading. It even extends to my 
typing and handwriting. Frustrating.

But when there is a letter for each consonent, in other words, a direct 
corrolation of one glyph per consonental sound, a native speaker finds that 
after a short 
time that he is able to fill in the missing vowels in a consonental text. 
Even an English speaker. He may not be able to speed read, but he can 
understand the 
text nonetheless.

As for recognizing the difference between a Qal and Piel, I have yet to see a 
well defined way that all can agree to to recognize it from the context. It 
seems 
that even the top scholars disagree on what a Piel stands for.

Karl W. Randolph.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Vadim Cherny" <VadimCherny AT mail.ru>
> 
> Karl,
> 
> We discussed it several times, and you know that I disagree completely.
> I taught speed reading years ago, a sort of reading few thousands (actually,
> almost hundred thousand in one case) words per minute, and found out that
> people understand text when they remember just 2-3% of it, and 25-27% is
> subjectively considered "photographic."
> When you speak about few ambiguities, you imply that the text is
> understandable. But you cannot distinguish piel from paal.
> 
> Vadim Cherny
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