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Originally Posted by CazMar
I couldn't imagine "sub-vocalising" unless I was reading a play or a piece of poetry. It must slow down your reading speed a lot. The print just goes straight in to my brain! I read "chunks" of text, whole short paragraphs,at once.
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Agreed! I read very quickly (though it's not a "speed-read" thing). I will read (or skim) a characters description, but I forget it immediately after. I suppose I usually *am* the lead character, and one never gets a glimpse of themself! (barring the occasional mirror)
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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc
Interesting observation this weekend: I read "Mrs. Fry's Diary" -- a tongue planted firmly in cheek expose of Stephen Fry's alleged marriage. It wasn't funny unless I "heard" Fry delivering the lines as if in a monologue -- putting in the wry emphasis on words, the pause before the punch line, the rising inflection of disbelief, etc. I literally had to create the audio book version in my head to find the humor.
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I have had THIS experience, more with Wodehouse. I have to mentally hear Hugh Laurie and Steven Fry's voices, to really enjoy Wodehouse anymore.
I didn't vote NO because there is one time when I do subvocalize --- when I am trying to get huge meaning from a text. Mostly, when I am studying scripture, and want to feel it applying to myself.
Even physics and math text books were read at a faster pace, without the vocalizing. In fact, some books hold me at arms length from them, until I get my speed going and drop the voice. Godel's Incompleteness theorems were like this. Until I stopped slowly hearing each word, and sped up to where the meanings just flowed into me ... I couldn't make sense of it.