Mini Hungarian language lesson: house of cards
A historic house being demolished to make way for yet another hotel is an everyday occurrence in downtown Budapest.
But today's news about the demise of the house that used to host the pub called "The Wichmann" is sadder than most.
Then in 2018 it was announced the pub will be sold; Wichmann was 70 at the time and said he was just tired and old. He died less than two years later
Take a look at this gate ornament for example. If your first reaction is WTF?, I'm not blaming you.
For this house used to be the home of the Theosophical Society of Hungary in the first half of the 20th century.
It reportedly stood out from the neighbouring upmarket brothels by dint of the women working there taking a bath not once but twice a week.
But not all innovations in this house were of a pubic nature.
Of course no-one else outside of Hungary calls it that, it's called Swiss/Tell or Seasons Pattern, or Doppeldeutsche in German.
As you can also see, this is a picquet pack with only 32 cards.
In 1836 censorship was pretty strict, so Hungarian heroes would've been right out. But the story of William Tell is still a nod to the struggle and liberation from the Habsburgs.
And instead of Jacks and Queens we have Alsó ("lower") and Felső ("upper"), or archaically "filkó".
I don't know if Stüssi was particularly dim in the original story but there we are.
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An appallingly tardy response to such an important element of reading - apologies. The growing recognition of fluency as the crucial developmental area for primary education is certainly encouraging helping us move away from the obsession with reading comprehension tests.
It is, as you suggest, a nuanced pedagogy with the tripartite algorithm of rate, accuracy and prosody at times conflating the landscape and often leading to an educational shrug of the shoulders, a convenient abdication of responsibility and a return to comprehension 'skills'.
Taking each element separately (but not hierarchically) may be helpful but always remembering that for fluency they occur simultaneously (not dissimilar to sentence structure, text structure and rhetoric in fluent writing).
Rate, or words-read-per-minute, is the easiest. Faster reading speeds are EVIDENCE of fluency development but attempting to 'teach' children(or anyone) to read faster is fallacious (Carver, 1985) and will result in processing deficit which in young readers will be catastrophic.
Reading rate is dependent upon eye-movements and cognitive processing development along with orthographic development (more on this later).
Sorry - a bit of a brain dump post - but I'd appreciate any responses and/or directions towards any applicable research.@Suchmo83 @Mr_AlmondED @TimRasinski1 @ReadingShanahan @mrspennyslater @TheReadingApe @PieCorbett @ReadingRockets @teach_well
— Mr Leyshon (@RyonWLeyshon) February 4, 2021
It is, as you suggest, a nuanced pedagogy with the tripartite algorithm of rate, accuracy and prosody at times conflating the landscape and often leading to an educational shrug of the shoulders, a convenient abdication of responsibility and a return to comprehension 'skills'.
Taking each element separately (but not hierarchically) may be helpful but always remembering that for fluency they occur simultaneously (not dissimilar to sentence structure, text structure and rhetoric in fluent writing).
Rate, or words-read-per-minute, is the easiest. Faster reading speeds are EVIDENCE of fluency development but attempting to 'teach' children(or anyone) to read faster is fallacious (Carver, 1985) and will result in processing deficit which in young readers will be catastrophic.
Reading rate is dependent upon eye-movements and cognitive processing development along with orthographic development (more on this later).
