Dyslexia == Chinese?

[jason]

I just saw a very strange and problematic commercial on TV from an international dyslexia organization (http://www.interdys.org). The commercial, to me, implied that dyslexia was something related to christians who speak english. They went so far as to say something like isn't it frustrating when the words all look like chinese? It scares me when I see so little thought put into the presentation of ideas.

[update: the organization said that it wasn't their doing, and that they have not been advertising. strange, as I got the URL for their website from the commercial. still investigating.]

Comments

stupid commercial

[a-me-lum.livejournal.com]

i would be concerned with the comparison too, are chinese characters/words really that bad? if they really said "isn't it frustrating when the words look like chinese" i would be offended. Yes they're different and hard to understand if you are not chinese, but the same goes for all other languages. Pretty rude and stupid commercial if you ask me.

Re: stupid commercial

[complicittheory.livejournal.com]

Ya, rather. And anyway, I think chinese would be easier for a dyslexic to understand. I know some japanese which uses chinese characters, and the great thing about it is that I don't confuse me as much as the English alphabet. Pictographic languages like chinese may be what dyslexics need. Pretty culturally intolerant anyway.