That's very interesting. I--and most of my close friends--have similar histories. Have you ever read the notes on geek-speech that were written by a linguist whose sister is a con-goer? (I'd supply a link, but my google-fu is failing me.) One of the things she noticed is that because geeks tend to have a much larger read-vocabulary than spoken-vocabulary, it is not at all uncommon to hear people correct each other's pronunciation without offense being taken (e.g. "It's indeFATigable." "Really?" "Yup." "Oh. So, as I was saying..."). When a volunteer starts at RFB&D there's a list of commonly mispronounced words that they encourage you to look up for yourself (the shocker for me was DESultory, although I was also appalled that the OED's preferred pronunciation is arCHEtypal and that Merriam-Webster accepts nucular for "nuclear").
Anyway, I tend to think of early-reading as being part of my high language proficiency and am curious as to what problems you think it has caused you.
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Date: 2008-01-06 12:10 am (UTC)Anyway, I tend to think of early-reading as being part of my high language proficiency and am curious as to what problems you think it has caused you.