If you graduated before they implemented this or aren’t American, the system they started to use to teach kids how to read is called three cuing. They teach kids to identify unknown words by guessing based on clues in pictures with the sentences, what word would ‘make sense’, and whether the answer they came up with looks right based on the first letter.

As you may have noticed, none of that is reading a word. These are strategies that borderline illiterate people will use to try to understand words, and for decades it’s been the method used by many schools across the country.

So that person you’re arguing with online who keeps going off on bizarre rants barely related to anything you said might not be a troll, they might just be functionally illiterate due to having never been taught to read. Yaaay!

  • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
    2·
    3 days ago

    I knew about the Tesseract stuff but I’ll have to look into photon, I might just be perma blorp now even though I find the UI a bit loud lol

    • alapakala@quokk.auEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      I am in the tesseract blocklist. Photon, iirc, had other word filters that made it queerphobic. For a long time, we were stick w/alexandrite. Now I am in pylova. But I adore alexandrite’s emoji/logogram UI. English is a genorific language to UI w/.

      • Xylight‮@lemdro.idEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        Just another reminder that Photon is a different project with a different dev and there was never and will never be any default blocklist :)