Is your experience similar to spelling errors in written English?
I choose English because it's the primary (only?) language for this site, and while there are definite rules for the correct sequence of letters for a word, the rules for the language overall are not especially consistent. And it seems to me that English has a bazillion words in common use.
I have from time to time experienced that very weird sensation, as I look at an English word I've used in written language for fifty years, and it suddenly for a time it seems totally wrong and incomprehensible. I recall staring at the word "Our", thinking it could not possibly mean anything in English. This is rare, and doesn't last long. So far.
But it gives me some insight into aphasia, perhaps.
And we need spell-checkers for our writing, because in a stream of words we have written by pushing buttons, the brain elides the misplaced letters, it's almost impossible to spot them all, much less work to simply hand to someone else to read it fresh, then the errors seem obvious to them.
But it's the temporary, isolated dyslexia I find bizarre.
Yeah, you got it right, I'm a native English speaker. I wouldn't say the first-person experience is entirely the same as forgetting a spelling, when I misspell a word I usually get most of it right and mix one or two letters up like piece/peice.
With a Chinese character, it's like you can't get the first stroke down and you're unable to reproduce anything. But once you've worked out the first two or three strokes, maybe by getting a dictionary, for me at least muscle memory seems to just take over and you can kind of just finish it automatically.
It's interesting though, these little quirks definitely give some insight into how the brain's underlying OS works. Funnily enough talking about dyslexia I often wonder if Chinese dyslexia and English dyslexia is the same condition, or if they're both completely different. Would an English kid be as dyslexic in Chinese if they were bilingual, or would they find reading one language easier?
Is your experience similar to spelling errors in written English?
I choose English because it's the primary (only?) language for this site, and while there are definite rules for the correct sequence of letters for a word, the rules for the language overall are not especially consistent. And it seems to me that English has a bazillion words in common use.
I have from time to time experienced that very weird sensation, as I look at an English word I've used in written language for fifty years, and it suddenly for a time it seems totally wrong and incomprehensible. I recall staring at the word "Our", thinking it could not possibly mean anything in English. This is rare, and doesn't last long. So far.
But it gives me some insight into aphasia, perhaps.
And we need spell-checkers for our writing, because in a stream of words we have written by pushing buttons, the brain elides the misplaced letters, it's almost impossible to spot them all, much less work to simply hand to someone else to read it fresh, then the errors seem obvious to them.
But it's the temporary, isolated dyslexia I find bizarre.