Re: Ygyde is easier to learn than any other language

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> wrote:
> dwolf...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (David Wolff) wrote:
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>> This set of glyphs will be hell for dyslexics.
> 
> Interesting point...
> 
> In the United States, researchers estimate the prevalence of dyslexia
> to range from five to nine percent of school-aged children, though
> some have put the figure as high as 17 percent.
> source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyslexia#Facts_and_statistics
> 
> The dyseidetic (visual or surface) subtype is associated with
> inability to develop a sight word vocabulary, slow and laborious
> reading as familiar words must be repeatedly deciphered, and
> unconventional but highly phonetic spelling. Boder re****ted that
> approximately 10% of her subjects exhibited this pattern, with an
> additional 22% showing a "mixed" type with elements of both the
> dyseidetic and dysphonetic forms.
> source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyslexia#Subtypes_of_dyslexia
> 
> It seems that this may be a problem for about 1% of the population.
> Maybe they need a special font?

Depending on which numbers you are multiplying, you can get anywhere
from .5% (five percent x 10%) to 5.44% (17 percent x (10+22)%) of the
population.

> I looked upside-down at the sample of Ygyde text written in Ygyde
> font:
> http://www.medianet.pl/~andrew/ygyde/ygyde_text.gif
> It is easy to tell that the text is upside down because some Ygyde
> glyphs do not have mirror equivalents.

I was not claiming that it's hard to tell if text is upside down.
Dyslexics tend to have trouble with individual glyphs that match
reversed glyphs (in Roman letters, especially b, d, p, q), not text as a
whole.

However, for text that happens to be lacking the one-way-only glyphs, it
will be hard to distinguish whether it's right-side-up.

>> On the other hand, it will be fun writing sentences that are still
valid
>> sentences (with some other meaning) when they are mirror-reflected
>> left-to-right or upside down.  I always look for that in a planned
>> language.
> 
> There is much more to Ygyde than its fonts. The basic idea defining
> Ygyde is that you learn Ygyde by memorizing a few rules rather than by
> memorizing thousands of words.

Yes, I understand that there is more to a language than its fonts.  I
just picked this one particular bit to comment on.  I'm sure, however,
that you will "adamantly oppose testing" of the font's readability.

Thanks --

David

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