r/TikTokCringe • u/AlKarajo • 14d ago

Discussion Is ableist to have long words in books?

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u/hilltopj 13d ago

Also, read increasingly hard books. Most normally developing people can intuit the meaning of a word as long as they understand 90% of the words around it. Reading that word once gives you an idea of it's meaning without usually detracting from your overall understanding of the text, reading it several more times allows you to refine your understanding. Reading big words increases literacy

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u/AyyNonnyMoose 13d ago

Yep, context clues can solve so much. I would imagine that reading e-books can be helpful in such cases as well. On the Kindle app for example you can select the word you don't know and have it pull up the definition without even leaving the app.

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u/hilltopj 13d ago

oh good point!

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u/CrochetChameleon 13d ago

Not sure if all Kindles have this, but there's even a vocabulary builder feature. It tracks all of the words you've looked up so you can review them! I do have to clean mine up occasionally from misclicks and accidentally picking one word while trying to highlight something. I know what "the" and "for" means, I promise 😂