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Old 04-17-2008, 02:44 PM   #94 (permalink)
jillio
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Originally Posted by deafskeptic View Post
I can pass for hearing speech wise and sometimes I have a hard time decoding what a hearing person writes phonically. One of the reasons why I loathe L33t speak is that you have to decode some of it phonically. Still other parts of it you have to decode by sight. I'm never sure which way to decode it.
Ah, the inconsistencies of the English language. One of the reasons that a phonetic approach to reading and writing also produces inconsistent results.
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