30000th poster gets a cookie (cookie thread (Part 7)) (Part 10)

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#29576

@May I don’t know to what extent this answers your question but I think one of the claims being made (not mostly by people in the conversation) is that some kids are just straight-up ending up illiterate*/barely literate due to poor early-childhood reading instruction + no intensive catch-up later in life

(though I agree that this is a poor explanation for “people interpreting posts online in really stupid ways,” I think the person who originally came up with the “maybe they’re just misinterpreting you because they Can’t Read” hypothesis was being, mm, overly charitable)

* broad term that covers some people who can in fact read some things

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#29577

i spend most of my days nowadays wearing a dog collar 24/7, so far i only take it off when i shower or when im excercising

i would wear my dog ears and dog tail but those are super convenient while sitting and watching yt or playing games and im worried about damaging them. my paws are just a lil inconvenient for complete daily use as well

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#29578

i’m mentally pulling levers in my head with mysterious effect that probablyyyy cause the screaming and all the mysterious particles but its kinda fun and i can’t really stop so its fine

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#29579
#29580

yeah kinda like that but with levers instead and the music is more of a loud wailing and smashing keys of the world’s longest piano and muffed screaming of… predominantly male humans between the ages of 35-45

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#29581

Yeah I don’t contest this either, I’m not especially pro-non-phonics-reading-education, I just think that’s a really poor explanation for people misinterpreting posts on social media, which is the specific thing I’m responding to. The post in question began with like “I understand why people misinterpret my posts ever since I learned about three-cueing…”

(I shouldn’t be vague about what I’m responding to but opening with zero context is Tumblr tradition)

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#29582

oh I was vaguely imagining a completely different post that I saw a couple years ago (the one I was imagining that you were responding to was more like ‘hey! if you feel like someone is missing your point on purpose, consider that maybe they can’t read!’ rather than presenting it as something that was definitely happening)

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#29583

lmao

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#29584

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These are the posts, might be it might not?

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#29585

It kind of denies the idea that one can learn the meaning of a word through context in a way that’s very frustrating to me. It’s not “these kids never learned to read because the didn’t understand the method they were taught through” it’s just like. “People are figuring out the meaning of a word by seeing it in a sentence repeatedly. And that’s bad”

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#29586

I mean, like, I can see a more charitable interpretation of the inital post itself, maybe they are talking about specific cases where this method failed kids, but the words on the page do imply that the way people learn the vast majority of words in their life, through repeatedly seeing them in context, is not reading

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#29587

And also misattributes the cause of social media misinterpretations to literal illiteracy when I think uncharitableness and what I’m told is called “context collapse” are like a way bigger thing.

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#29588

definitely a different post than the one I was thinking of

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#29589

Wow Atlas, I see how it is, you think we are dummy robots who write up Wikipedia don’t you

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#29590

im tas

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#29591

I will show you Heaven if you show me this ever again!!!

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#29592

We also do this

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#29593

so specifically tutuu goes to heaven whilst i don’t?

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#29594

Sustenance

#29595

CHLOE?!?!?!?

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