They were using a few more mappings per number for instance:
0: 's', 'z', soft 'c'
1: 't', 'd', 'th'
6: 'j', 'sh', 'ch', soft 'g'
etc
The problem I have, is that they present them from 1 to 0, and the first 4 have some mnemonic logic added to them: a bar in 't' for 1, two bars down in the 'n' for 2, three in 'm' for 3, and the 'r' from fouR in 4.
Great. And then mnemonic logic goes out the door. 5: 'l'. Ah. A single bar. Err.. is it 1 or 5..? 7: 'k'. Imagine the K looks like a 7. Ok, maybe.
So the mapping itself starts getting confusing. Unless you do what they claimed all along the book you shouldn't do: rote memorization.. Which was grinding my gears a bit..
At some level you do have to let rote memorization take place. For 10 digits for example, this is totally reasonable and you can memorize those associations in an hour easily. Then you can apply them to create mnemonics for 1000s of things.
They were using a few more mappings per number for instance:
0: 's', 'z', soft 'c'
1: 't', 'd', 'th'
6: 'j', 'sh', 'ch', soft 'g'
etc
The problem I have, is that they present them from 1 to 0, and the first 4 have some mnemonic logic added to them: a bar in 't' for 1, two bars down in the 'n' for 2, three in 'm' for 3, and the 'r' from fouR in 4.
Great. And then mnemonic logic goes out the door. 5: 'l'. Ah. A single bar. Err.. is it 1 or 5..? 7: 'k'. Imagine the K looks like a 7. Ok, maybe.
So the mapping itself starts getting confusing. Unless you do what they claimed all along the book you shouldn't do: rote memorization.. Which was grinding my gears a bit..