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When English is your only language and you can't even get that right, maybe who's running for mayor shouldn't be your biggest concern. Try mastering your ABCs first and then we can move beyond sesame street level issues.

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[–] gobble_ghoul@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago

I'm not at all joking about the autocomplete thing, to be clear. Kids learning to read have literally been taught to guess words based on the first couple of letters and the surrounding context. The rules of spelling to pronunciation correspondence - however complex they are - are treated as a fallback for when context and guessing don't work. I see it all the time. If they don't have the instinct to sound out words in a random paragraph, they're probably not going to start doing it for some random person that they aren't ever going to directly interact with.