why are big words like mississippi easier to remember than small words like exercise or aspire?
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The word Mississippi was fun to spell when i was small. It has a weird pattern, but that's what makes it interesting. I prefer spelling Mississippi rather than words like exercise and aspire.
152627
Wow tahts raelly itersenitng!\nThat's pretty cool the way our minds work... even though the words are scrambled, they're still understandable because the first and last letters.
1120851
If you type in text speak you sound idiotic. It loses the meaning of what you are saying and can take twice a long for the reader to understand what you are saying. And of course it must take you longer to think of the variations of txt talk
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Yep...\nHave a go at 'red leather, yellow leather' or 'she poured a proper cup of coffee from a copper coffee pot'...\n\n'Toy boat' is pretty tricky too.\n\nIt seems to have something to to with the way our mouths and brains expect words to be pronounced. We know the patterns of our language, and we aren't used  to saying the same combination of similar sounds over and over again, so when we attempt it, our brains and tongues get confused and try to anticpate or cause a change, making it difficult to complete the challenges.
1111331
PEMDAS can be remembered as:\nPlease\nExcuse\nMy\nDear\nAunt\nSally
944739
concentration is better
919121
TennisVoice is better; a two-part name is always easier to remember than a three-part name.
160638
Because our short term memory can only hold very few things and only lasts 12-60 seconds...we must move things into our long term memory, which is able to store unlimited information, through repetition..this is the best way...
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Hey man listen here!! Mr. Cannibal is answering you!!\nWords in this nature are natural.\nWhen languages use words it means they discovered the words not invented!\n Now I must answer your question that English has the most words because this is very old language and also absorbed many words from other languages during occupying other countries.\nBut you don’t have to memorize all of them.\nAlso Happy Birthday to you.
696115
Yes, I can be so much better understood with the written word. When I read I get lost in the lines inside the message. My fuel are the words that are spoken and written. Good question.....
986010
Repitition is important. Let the children say the word then spell it out aloud. Remember to break the words down in syllables. I find that children learn better when they listen. In fact it is said that audible retention has more impact than visual retention. If you can get cassettes with the words on them that would be great.\nAlso let the children use the words in everyday simple sentences. This should aid greatly with the learning process.
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the memory is enhanced because the neurons in your brain form new connections and we remember things for tests and such because when we study we make those connections stronger. Hope this helps.
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coming up with abbreviations for them (pneumonics) makes it easier to remember , or even associating the formula with a certain picture or item , you think of that picture or item and you can easily remember the formula. of if you have trouble that way , try grouping a few of them and then coming up with a sentence , its called chunking that way i think....it was proven to work best too.
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the answer to your question is "bookkeeper" i saw a question like this in a book called "Encyclopedia Brown" this is a very commonly asked question. I'm glad that you asked it.\n\nP.S. Mississippi doesn't work because the letters are not consecutive.
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Interesting question, I have often wondered the same thing, because i think a lot, but never vocalize it for fear of not  being able to properly express what I am trying to say.   So I think vocab is more important because it'll help you out more in the real world, b/c what the hell are you going to do with all those thoughts? I 'm a huge scatterbrain because I'm always thinking about some random thing or day dreaming, and I wish I could be a better speaker
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It's from being online too much. Laziness is a factor. It may have been spawned from the whole "text messaging" cell phone reveloution. But to be honest, the brevity in online language has been around a long time. Ever since the dawn of online communication people have been coming up with clever little emoticons and ways of shortening phrases. For instance, LOL standing for Laughing out Loud. AFK standing for "Away from Keyboard" which you don't see much of anymore. BRB meaning "Be Right Back" is the same idea. In any case, these have been around forever. Yet the shortening of normal words is a bit absurd and it's everywhere. Sometimes I even catch myself using "ur" to represent the word "your". It may be because I use text messaging every day and it is much easier to hit a button 5 times then it is to hit it 9. I agree the laziness is just stupidity and really people should avoid doing it. Ultimately, it just makes people forget how to read and write properly. Which means you get a bunch of idiots online talking to each other and you have to try and interpret what they're saying. BTW, I think most of them really don't know how to spell.
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use mnemonics to help remember lists of things