Depends on what I'm reading. I think I do all of the above, at times.
I don't spell out or sound out familiar words--I just recognize them. Sometimes whole phrases too. But I do that to longer phrases rarely, because if I extrapolate and guess, I rapidly make mistakes and have to go back and read two or three times, like coats of paint, to make sure I haven't missed something, and that gets time consuming and shatters my immersion in the world. It's as if I hit a scratch on the DVD or a static burst on the videotape.
Unfamiliar words I sound out if they are important, and sometimes try to guess etymology. Strange names I do what others have said--recognize the shape and move on, without ever learning the actual spelling or pronounciation.
Nonfiction is much slower going. I read carefully, never knowing when the vital fact will be slipped in, so I burn out on reading nonfiction very quickly. Something hard like math, I chew over each major word, rereading to make sure it isn't a similar word with a different meaning. Then I am recognizing pieces of words, and sometimes individual letters when they are crucial.
I recognize misspellings as jarring interruptions, mostly by the word "looking wrong" or shattering the grammar and with it the thought. Examination of why a word looks wrong reveals the specific letters out of place. Convoluted sentences cause a "wipeout" where I have to go into dissection mode to parse, another "scratch on the DVD."
I picture stories I read, but I think I'm always somewhat aware that I am reading text on a page. Some stories the picture is sharper than others. Some, I barely get a shimmer. Dialogue I hear, complete with imagined accents, but as others have said, generally at higher speed unless the moment is dramatic and the words weighty. Sometimes my brain adds a soundtrack.
When people talk, I don't picture the words or letters at all, unless the words are strange and my brain is groping for a referent. Speech feels like a completely different "channel" in my brain from reading.
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All of the above! Or mostly, anyway...
Date: 2007-03-30 04:39 am (UTC)I don't spell out or sound out familiar words--I just recognize them. Sometimes whole phrases too. But I do that to longer phrases rarely, because if I extrapolate and guess, I rapidly make mistakes and have to go back and read two or three times, like coats of paint, to make sure I haven't missed something, and that gets time consuming and shatters my immersion in the world. It's as if I hit a scratch on the DVD or a static burst on the videotape.
Unfamiliar words I sound out if they are important, and sometimes try to guess etymology. Strange names I do what others have said--recognize the shape and move on, without ever learning the actual spelling or pronounciation.
Nonfiction is much slower going. I read carefully, never knowing when the vital fact will be slipped in, so I burn out on reading nonfiction very quickly. Something hard like math, I chew over each major word, rereading to make sure it isn't a similar word with a different meaning. Then I am recognizing pieces of words, and sometimes individual letters when they are crucial.
I recognize misspellings as jarring interruptions, mostly by the word "looking wrong" or shattering the grammar and with it the thought. Examination of why a word looks wrong reveals the specific letters out of place. Convoluted sentences cause a "wipeout" where I have to go into dissection mode to parse, another "scratch on the DVD."
I picture stories I read, but I think I'm always somewhat aware that I am reading text on a page. Some stories the picture is sharper than others. Some, I barely get a shimmer. Dialogue I hear, complete with imagined accents, but as others have said, generally at higher speed unless the moment is dramatic and the words weighty. Sometimes my brain adds a soundtrack.
When people talk, I don't picture the words or letters at all, unless the words are strange and my brain is groping for a referent. Speech feels like a completely different "channel" in my brain from reading.