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>(I suppose phonetic writing system also adds to the problem. How cool it would be if you could read the meaning from symbols, instead of doing letter combination matching.)

Isn't this what visual readers already do, by recognizing whole words, or even groups of words at the same time? Observing myself reading, it seems like that's what I do.

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Thanks for correcting, I'm not sure how I arrived at that point—it seems to me I too recognize word at a time. However, I'm not a visual reader as I understand the term: unless I consciously attempt to suppress my inner speech, I silently “pronounce” each word, which slows down the process.

I'm trying to imagine using a writing system in which how a word is written has no connection to its pronunciation, representing only meaning. That would pretty much make inner speech impossible, among other things.

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