http://bryanmoats.com/doodlebritches/2009/03/an-awesome-concert-i-see-every-day/ Sat, 23 Jan 2010 18:45:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://bryanmoats.com/doodlebritches/2009/03/an-awesome-concert-i-see-every-day/comment-page-1/#comment-70 Nelda Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:07:19 +0000 http://bryanmoats.com/doodlebritches/?p=57#comment-70 I know this is an old post, but I just found it, and I wanted to tell you about this funny intersection of visual and verbal learning that works for me. When it comes to spelling, I'm one of those people who remembers how correctly spelled words look like-- if something's misspelled, it looks oddly unbalanced to me (same with when somebody mis-capitalizes things in titles or headlines-- ack! Too much weight! It's going to fall over!). But there are some words that just don't stick, so I have to make some kind of image that goes with the correct spelling. Most recently, I figured out how to spell the word "moccasins" correctly every time. I always hesitated, not knowing if it was "cc" or "ss". But then I looked at how the two "c"s curve around just like your toes curve around the top of your feet, and now I can remember. In Spanish, how do you remember that "cuchara" means spoon and "cuchillo" means knife? You can take a knife and cut down the middle of that double L in cuchillo, but you can't do that with cuchara (but you can take a spoon and scoop out something delicious that's in the bowl-like U). I know this is an old post, but I just found it, and I wanted to tell you about this funny intersection of visual and verbal learning that works for me. When it comes to spelling, I’m one of those people who remembers how correctly spelled words look like– if something’s misspelled, it looks oddly unbalanced to me (same with when somebody mis-capitalizes things in titles or headlines– ack! Too much weight! It’s going to fall over!). But there are some words that just don’t stick, so I have to make some kind of image that goes with the correct spelling. Most recently, I figured out how to spell the word “moccasins” correctly every time. I always hesitated, not knowing if it was “cc” or “ss”. But then I looked at how the two “c”s curve around just like your toes curve around the top of your feet, and now I can remember. In Spanish, how do you remember that “cuchara” means spoon and “cuchillo” means knife? You can take a knife and cut down the middle of that double L in cuchillo, but you can’t do that with cuchara (but you can take a spoon and scoop out something delicious that’s in the bowl-like U).

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