On 4 October 2014 04:53, Tim <ignored_mailbox(a)yahoo.com.au> wrote:
Allegedly, on or about 03 October 2014, Ian Malone sent:
> This is not correct:
> Across.
> Receipt.
> Accept (!?)
> It's not universally how letter sounds are taught in any case. Letter
> names are not the same as sounds.
>
> If you have a point about 'capital letters' it's more that the letter
> sounds are less variable when they're initial sounds, but those don't
> have to be capital. Otherwise We Would Write Like This.
Writing like a Windows Moron Programmer Who Doesn't Understand The
Grammar of Writing Sentences In The Pop-Up Windows, is yet another
thing.
Sigh. You've replied to the same mail twice and in both cases cut the
bit I was replying to where you said this was a property of capital
letters, hence my example. I'm aware of phonics; I was at one point
taught to read. What I was trying to demonstrate was that sound of a
capital letter *is* exactly the same as a lower case letter. Hence
apple and APPLE sound the same. Teaching children otherwise would be a
fun experiment.
--
imalone
http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk