User talk:Burnsmb258

May 2024

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Thank you. ClueBot NG (talk) 23:49, 20 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Edits about phonics / etc

Hello! I guess you are a new editor, but it looks as though you actually know something about the subject. You will probably be amazed at some stage to realise that on WP, with its cliquey abbreviations, knowledge of the subject is not usually seen as an advantage, indeed many people seem to regard it as a handicap to the unfettered scraping of factoids from PPB ("proper printed books", but that one is mine). I'm interested in the phonics article: clearly there is a topic relating to the teaching of reading English, driven by the educational argument between the "phonics" brigade and the "just let them look at a book and the bright ones will pick it up OK" brigade. This is because English has a uniquely (?) irregular phonetic spelling system; the only comparable case to my knowledge is French, where there is a parallel argument between "méthode phonétique" and "méthode integrale", except that my memory is failing, and I can't now find this on French Wikipedia (fr:WP). What would really help would be a PPB giving a description of "phonics" from outside, showing that it is really an educational term rather than anything from real linguistics etc. Can you help? (Just reply beneath this message.) Imaginatorium (talk) 04:00, 21 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]