re: #197 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

That doesn’t really make sense. With a character based language you need to know a lot of characters. With an alphabet based language, you can decipher the words using only a couple dozen “characters”

Yes, and that’s all you’ll ever learn to do, spell them out letter by letter. Ever see somebody tracing out words with their finger and muttering to themselves as they “read”? (It might be me trying to sound out a Russian text.)

Phonics in action.