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Originally Posted by DixieGal
First, forget iambic pentameter, rhyme, poetry, and all, and just read it through as paragraphs, instead of lines of a poem.
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While this certainly is very good advice (much better than the later linked article, which, IMO, is quite useless), I tried to do that and failed miserably.
To me, the way text is structured matters almost more than how it is written.
I can work around unknown words(english not being my first language I'm used to this anyway) - I cannot work around anything that breaks the flow. (Which, of course, includes typos. Yet I still make them...)
Writing text
In a way that
Doesn't make it look
Right
Will ruin the flow.
The reason, I believe, is because I tend to subvocalize the text I read. While it may slow me down, it greatly enhances my enjoyment of the text - but at the same time leaves me vulnerable to stumbling blocks like misspelled words(where the sound is different) or - as with Shakespeare and similar - text blocks where sentence begin and end aren't properly indicated (i.e. upper letter at line start despite no sentence start).
Now I'm curious - those of you who can read Shakespeare - do you subvocalize when reading?