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Another shift between different areas is the way we use 'say' for 'read', 'see' for 'understand', 'talk' for 'write'. [...] This is common everywhere, including the teacher talking to the young child in the beginning reading clasroom, and we are usually oblivious of the fact that we mix these modalities. One researcher even reports the anecdote of the child who thought herself deaf because she could not hear the letters whispering to her - she could not hear what the letters said.