Wednesday, August 22, 2007

experience with words

Have you ever had the experience that when you write down a word, all of a sudden that word seems so foreign to you and you are not sure you have spelled it correctly? Even after you've looked up the word in the dictionary, you still puzzle with the spelling. Happened to me tonight with the word "thorough." Weird, isn't it. I do the same thing with Chinese words too. Strange.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

for chinese words, if you keep writing the same word again and again (like 10, 20, or 30 times) ... you might start questioning why the strokes are so weird, "is this really the word i am trying to write?".

JC said...

yeah yeah... exactly.