Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

Oh, and apparently Japanese people do get dyslexia, the kanji all come out in the wrong order….I find this strangely reassuring.


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  1. marvelousmrchip

    DO they get a lot of dyslexia? I mean, there was this study done on how many university students knew they were dyslexics in the UK, France, and Italy.

    Apparently, upon testing, about equal numbers were (I forget the exact values), but most of the UK dyslexics knew they were because English is such a tricky language to spell, next was France with fewer knowing they were dyslexic, and then came Italy with almost none of them knowing because Italian is completely phonetic and easy to spell, with very few awkward syllables.

    I just wondered how Japan compared, what with 4 alphabets and all that.

    A friend of mine in London recently found she was dyslexic when someone suggested to her that she might be because of her behaviour. She was a team leader in an administrative organisation. Srange isn´t it. There´s obviously more to dyslexia than meets the eye. (Sorry, I couldn´t resist that one. No offence to anybody… :-)

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    • neilh

      I’ve no idea, I was more interested in how it manifested itself, I can see that places where there are nice easy rules for spellings would make it less obvious. So I would imagine it could be quite a problem here.

      I also wonder if actually dyslexia is really a ‘normal’ condition, since there does seem to be a lot of people who have it, maybe being able to spell is actually the unusual condition?

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  2. neuroticme

    Hey, saw your journal on the NMA community. I read somewhere (a while ago) that while Japanese can be affected by dyslexia, they aren’t as prone as Europeans and Americans (well, countries that use Latin-based alphabets).

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    • neilh

      Maybe it just manifests differently, so it doesn’t make so much of a problem for those who suffer it. It varies between languages, English shows it worse than most, I would guess.

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      • neuroticme

        I guess that Japanese makes it harder to be dyslexic, since hiragana, katakana and kanji are usually so distinctive. I mean, besides kanji, there is very little confusion in their other two syllabaries.

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