Re: "K"
- From: Daniel al-Autistiqui <govende30@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 11:52:41 -0400
On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 18:39:47 GMT, "Pat Durkin" <durk183@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
It may help to know that my speech is very unnatural, and sometimes it
"Daniel al-Autistiqui" <govende30@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi. I am still having a problem with the name of one of my caretakers
at the Broome Developmental Center, a woman named "K" (pronounced
"Kay", but spelled only with the letter of that name). Sure, this
one-letter name that her parents intended for her made it to the birth
certificate, but while such a name may be appropriate on legal
documents, I seem to feel that it is somehow "grammatically incorrect"
in actual English-language usage (when using the name in a sentence,
for example).
Maybe I sound unsympathetic, but how often will you have to actually
write K's name, if she is a caretaker? If you are saying it often, then
can you fool yourself into thinking that her name is "Kay", although you
know that it is not? I know that I tend to rehearse spellings as I say
peoples' names, and this technique may be putting the spelling of the
name in the forefront of your mind, preventing you from feeling at ease
with saying the name. Can you "erase" the mental tablet on which you
are "writing out" the name of the individual? Can you practice a mental
erasure without wiping the individual herself out of your mind? I
expect you have discussed this kind of trick with a counselor, but
thought you might try it as a technique.
can even be less natural than the process of writing or typing.
In my mind it is the written language, and not the spoken language,
that tends to be seen as primary. This idea does make a bit of sense,
as the spellings of many English words reflect a now-obsolete
pronunciation that is older than the present one.
I suppose that I cannot generally speak a word or sentence without
mentally "visualizing" it and then "reading aloud" what I have
visualized. "K" and "Kay" may just be two different names I store in
my mind whose phonetic *realizations* happen to be the same. I know
that when I say "K", I feel like I am saying something different from
what I am saying when I say "Kay".
daniel mcgrath
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Developmentally disabled;
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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder,
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