Do You Enjoy Reading In Your Abode?
Easy Reading May Not Be Enjoyable For You.
Abode
Are you getting restless in the abode where you abide? Are you practicing “social distancing” there?
Another way to say the same thing would be, "Are you practicing social distancing in your home"? I just used other words for practice in using synonyms. If you are an avid reader, you will, no doubt, see a variety of different terms than what is commonly used. Authors do this to annoy their readers, hoping they have to look some words up in dictionaries. To avoid such a distraction, many readers will fill in the sentence with a plausible meaning for the word and speed on to keep their speed up.
Readers who read "word for word" just slow down a little more and try to make meaning of the whole sentence by inference.
"If this unknown word means this, then the whole sentence means that?"
Understanding the usage of words is necessary for getting the true intent and meaning of an author's work.
And with some authors, it is still difficult to truly know what an individual sentence might mean. Some authors may want a sentence to remain ambiguous.
I am one of these slow readers and wrote about my “Third-grade Experience” in being the one who read slower than the average third-grader. The memory is still with me.
Parents, if you are helping your child to learn how to read, be careful that you understand how they are reading.
Parents should never get more frustrated than the struggling child.
11/19/2020
Larry E. Whittington