Nor were they the best geometers. In other societies, the fact that they worked was sufficient. The Greeks needed something better. Box 2.Two types of mental dictionaries. A word can be read phonologically.
Phonological readers have an advantage over lexical readers.
They can use their internal dictionaries of spoken words to understand written words. In the lexicon, hearing a word activates its associated meaning. They have to encode the visual characteristics of a word small letters-they may make a pleasing or striking shape on the with its meaning and pronunciation. They will not be translated into sounds and identified. This process in lexical reading is not restricted to the shape of a phonologically.