Comment on i somsone who isn’t dyslexic lexic?
cynar@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
The dys effectively means disorder of. Lexic reading and writing ability. It’s a disorder of reading.
In the same family you have some others. Dyscalcula is a disorder of maths ability. Dyspraxia is a disorder of motor control.
Science likes Latin based words. Because it’s a dead language, the meanings don’t change/drift. Most scientific language can be deconstructed this way.
agitated_judge@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Science might like latin words, but this one is greek. The dys- prefix means difficult, lexia means “ability with words”. Oh, and greek is not dead.