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Take this instance for example, you think eliminating guns would have stopped them? Look up terrorist attacks, and the different ways they do them. These guys planned this out, it wasn't a whim. Take the Boston bombers for example, in gun loving America, they didn't use any gun. Oklahoma city bombing, fertilizer bomb. We had several parades recently where a truck ran over the people. Depravity Whack-A-Mole. There's a simple solution, we have to quit murdering people, Europe murdering Palestinians, U.S. murdering muslims and Venezuelans, and none of our countries batting an eye at it. You get these little attacks that relieve some pressure(from the persecuted), think AlQaeda, ISIS,..... you can plug these little holes eliminating guns, then it just boils at a higher temperature and explodes into a death toll of 3,000 (9/11) Australia has pretty good gun control as far as I know. They're colonizers though, that's the problem.

I don't mean phonetics as an extra thing being taught will impede, I already said it's helpful. Obviously if you teach phonetics you eliminate other things you were teaching, you're not adding 3 months to every school year for phonetics, you're eliminating vocabularly and reading assignments.

Trucks, nerve gas or mustard gas(easily made with readily available material), anthrax(naturally grown), arson while locking doors, poison in the water system,.... guns are more convenient but taking away guns doesn't eliminate the problem, especially for planned attacks like this.

🙄 They didn't write for lay people

I'd say the prevalence, but not the cause.

That's just treating a symptom though. Theres still pressure cookers and trucks...

I will say, I absolutely do believe a phonetic approach to reading is the best way to read if you don't care about writing, you're converting symbols to sounds, like someone is speaking to you, rather than consciously thinking of the meaning of a symbol, it's easier, more natural. But not to write accurately(half of literacy). It's kind of funny.....🤔 probably right before Whole Word started, or not too long before it, words weren't standardized, people wrote more phonetically('incorrectly')...... 🤔 ......spelling is conformity......

They never touched on this in your school(not your tutor)?

I can see phonetics being used for a satisfactory level of literacy, I just think it's reckless to say you can decode English with phonetics, it's a ridiculous claim proven so with simple 'to/too/two'. For an accurate level of literacy you would learn through memorization though, but this is hard with dyslexia. When you're writing and words are coming to you, are they purely in audible form? They're both audible and written when they come to me.

@Thought Art can you write difficult words correctly, without memorizing them?

And when you get to writing dough/doe, ant/aunt, deer/dear, two/to/too,.... you use brute memory though?

@Thought Art you've memorized these words, haven't you?

So, can you write at a 12th grade level?

@Thought Art

Of course phonetics is used in learning a word, you have to speak it! My reservation is with reading, you have to memorize words, phonetics in reading is for cheating to not have to memorize low hanging fruit words: i.e. 'child level reading'

@Thought Art how do you know the difference between these? I love my deer I love my dear I killed an ant I killed an aunt I ate the dough I ate the doe

Exactly, it's only for 'low hanging fruit' words, it's not "decoding" English, it's cheating.

Can you decode any of these words with phonetics? (Don't use google) Adynamia Crepuscular Impignorate Petrichor Abibliophobia Callipygian Élucubration Floccinaucinihilipilification Kakorrhaphiophobia

These grifters will need to go to jail, Huang, Altman, Nadella, Ellison. This is like reverse 2008, we're actively choosing the crash..... Idiocracy

To read it, or speak it?

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What is the worst example of insurance claim denial that you all know of?

You don't have to get insurance through your employer. And you can pressure your employer to change.