But, the not being sure part matters. People know how to spell London. They hear London. If they've never heard of any other word pronounced that way, then they'll be pretty sure they know how to spell it. I don't look up how to spell Dark or Aaron or Big Gun, because they sound straightforward and variations are rare (Erin?). The whole point of words is to minimize the need for reading by letter, so if a word sounds like a known word, and there is no reason to expect it might not be the known word... it is downright rational to assume it's the known word.
I mean, if you use the laziness argument here, you're effectively arguing we should read everything by letter. And that's impractical with a screen reader. <insert rant about braille tech here>
I'll assume you were taking the opportunity to complain about the general case (in which you would be correct), but this is literally the first time in my life I have heard a word that sounds exactly like London when spoken by multiple synths that happened to be spelled differently. Priors, man!
看過來!
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MaxAngor wrote:
George... Don't do that.