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   clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Mar-2023 22:04:45 JST clacke
   Is dyslexia a bigger challenge, less a challenge or about the same for someone reading an ideophonographic script compared to someone reading an alphabetic script?
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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Mar-2023 22:04:53 JST clacke

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     @chiasm Wow! Thanks for finding this. Will read.
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     chiasm (chiasm@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Mar-2023 22:04:54 JST chiasm

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     @clacke What a fascinating question! I had to go look it up-- Turns out dyslexia isn't the same across scripts , and you can be bilingual but dyslexic in only one of your languages -- ? https://www.nature.com/articles/news040830-5

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Mar-2023 22:05:08 JST clacke

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     @chiasm Kid is super impressed that I had someone coming up with an answer within minutes -- The question came from a discussion we were having where I was explaining what dyslexia is.
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     chiasm (chiasm@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Mar-2023 22:05:13 JST chiasm

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     @clacke enjoy!! I'm glad you asked, I learned something new too!

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Mar-2023 22:05:33 JST clacke

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     Oh, it's paywalled.
     
     > This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution
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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Mar-2023 22:05:57 JST clacke

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     @chiasm haha nope
     
     I really appreciate your effort but "Sorry, we don’t have this article in PDF format."
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     chiasm (chiasm@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Mar-2023 22:05:58 JST chiasm

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     @clacke Try this and let me know?
     https://rdcu.be/c6VeO

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Mar-2023 22:06:10 JST clacke

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     @chiasm I love that they deliver the message as a PDF saying there's no PDF.
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     chiasm (chiasm@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Mar-2023 22:06:12 JST chiasm

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     @clacke oh you are kidding me--they said that was a shareable link. :-( Unfortunately mastodon doesn't allow pdf uploads or I'd upload it.

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     chiasm (chiasm@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Mar-2023 22:06:16 JST chiasm

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     @clacke Right, it's easier to get an actual study than the Nature commentary on it! This one is more complicated because it is the original article, but it is open access: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8497057/

     (oh though come to think of it I don't know how that works outside the US--hopefully it's open to you!)

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Mar-2023 22:06:18 JST clacke

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     @chiasm Awesome, thanks! I can see the full article.
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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Mar-2023 22:06:18 JST clacke

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     > DD affects a large number of individuals across writing systems, and the prevalence is about 5–10% in alphabetic writing systems [ . . . ] and about 4–7% in morpho-syllabic writing systems
     That matches my initial intuition!
     
     If dyslexia is related to having difficulty in "seeing the word" (anyone feel free to jump in here if I'm misunderstanding/misrepresenting dyslexia, or misunderstanding how many forms there are with a similar-looking diagnosis), I figured having a symbol representing a larger chunk of word would bridge the gap a bit, but that "it's complicated".
     
     A difference in perception that may cause difficulty parsing Chinese characters may not cause difficulty combining Latin letters into words and vice versa!
     
     Now I'm obviously wondering where Hangul falls. Is it more Latin-like or more Hanji-like in terms of how we parse it?