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Originally Posted by Quexos
I don't understand, what do you mean when you say you absorb the paragraph but you don't read the words ?
Your eyes must stop on words to decode the meaning of every one of them. How can you look at a paragraph and understand it without looking at its words?
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In teh smae way taht you can raed tihs snetnece. You don't look at each speraete ltteer to decdoe the wrod. You see the wohle wrod and konw waht it is.
It's a bloody nuisance to type that way, though, in part because of the same thing - you don't think the letters as you type, you just type out the words you are thinking.
For my part, I tend to read groups of words. I might read all of the groups in the first & second sentence of a paragraph, then skim over the rest, diving in if I see an indication that there's a thought I can't infer from the combination of the first sentence(s) and the remaining words sticking out from the paragraph.
But I don't employ the same methodology at all times, not even within the same book or chapter. I lean toward skimming when I am attending to the narrative flow, and slow down to word for word when I'm enjoying the way the sentence or paragraph is constructed. When what I'm reading is an argument, I fast forward to the next paragraph when I grasp where the currrent one is going. I can tell from the next paragraph whether I've gone offtrack in the first one.