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Has any of you had a brief "simulation" of being unable to read?

  • 06-09-2010 11:04pm
    #1
    John C
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 326 ✭✭


    There are many adults who cannot read proficiently in their mother tongue. I asked myself what would it be like to be in these people's shoes. They cannot read magazines, fliers, official notices, bank statements.
    They do not like asking strangers to read and write for them.

    Once I had a week's holiday in Warsaw. I had no Polish learnt. It did give me a very partial taste of being illiterate. But it was only seven days, I wrote out addresses and learnt words by inference.

    Did anyone here have any experience of living and working for months in a place, where he could not read the local language and having nobody speaking english as a backup?

    Does that give one a taste of being illiterate? Albeit only temporarily.


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  • #2
    FearDark
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,425 ✭✭✭FearDark


    Specific thread is... specific.


  • #3
    starbelgrade
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    John C wrote: »

    Did anyone here have any experience of living and working for months in a place where they could not read the local language?

    A place where the locals couldn't read the local language? I doubt such a place exists.


  • #4
    TheRiddler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 425 ✭✭TheRiddler


    I thought the title said stimulation and I got slightly aroused. However, upon entering this thread I learnt the error of my ways and I turned as flacid as if the queen mother herself was standing naked in front of thine eyes


  • #5
    F1ngers
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 10,683 Mod ✭✭✭✭F1ngers


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    A place where the locals couldn't read the local language? I doubt such a place exists.

    Dublin.:p


  • #6
    DB10
    Site Banned Posts: 2,719 ✭✭✭DB10


    My eyes are getting terrible and I'm only a youngster. Not sure whether it's too many late nights on the laptop or rubbing the one eyed snake.

    I think it's a combination of both. :(


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  • #7
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    John C wrote: »
    Has anypne a brief "simulation" of being unable to read


    anypne ...... This.


  • #8
    John C
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 326 ✭✭John C


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    A place where the locals couldn't read the local language? I doubt such a place exists.

    Many thanks for pointing out the ambiguity in the pronoun "they" in the line.
    Did anyone here have any experience of living and working for months in a place, where they could not read the local language..?This they referred to the persons visiting the place. I have amended the question to.

    Did anyone here have any experience of living and working for months in a place, where he could not read the local language..?

    Thanks again. Well spotted.


  • #9
    BrokenArrows
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,501 ✭✭✭BrokenArrows


    I assume not being able to read your native language would be somewhat like trying to read this.

    http://www.atlantisquest.com/text.gif


  • #10
    Sticky_Fingers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,379 ✭✭✭Sticky_Fingers


    John C wrote: »

    Does that give one a taste of being illiterate? Albeit only temporarily.

    Here you go

    Ĉi tiu paŝado estas farita el ne sukcesi sed mi poŝtos (al) ĉiuokaze akceli mian poŝton kalkulon

    Hope you liked it


  • #11
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    John C wrote: »
    Did anyone here have any experience of living and working for months in a place, where he could not read the local language..?

    I don't know who he is. Any chance of a clue?


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  • #12
    DOC09UNAM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,305 ✭✭✭DOC09UNAM


    BrokenArrows wrote: »
    I assume not being able to read your native language would be somewhat like trying to read this.

    http://www.atlantisquest.com/text.gif
    That looks quite easy to decipher tbh.


  • #13
    jaffa20
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭jaffa20


    AH has got very serious tonight. Two threads in literacy in one night. Zzzzz


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