After repairing a bunch of old oscilloscopes, I melted down the failed wax capacitors and made up scented candles.

That makes me remember the story mode of the gacha game I’m playing is structured as books, with some having opening and ending (*), and also there are side-stories they have called paralogues and (sometimes also) xenologues.

* they could have used prologue and epilogue but didn’t, SMH

End User Liscence Agreement?
LISCENCE?
look I'm dyslexic but even I can spell license, valve.

…weirder that comprehensible input works for second language acquisition but three-cueing doesn’t work for learning to read the first language (said he, stating some obvious differences between both scenarios 🤦‍♂️).

Idk, I’m just amazed, wondering in my own confusion. 🤷‍♂️

…has between letters and sounds and also given that what a word sounds like and what a word means are both arbitrary and only related by usage.

Also, somehow “use context to guess the meaning of words” sounds very similar to the comprehensible input method of language acquisition. So it seems even…

Don’t you dare invent the metre second there’s already enough people confused with the watt hour to add another one of those. Officially, SI unit abbreviations don’t have s-terminated plurals:
1m, one metre; 2m, two metres.