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I have found a word that describes me quite well, and thought I would share it with you:
hyperlexia
means being able to read big words without understanding them, basically. I find I do this all the time...
And as an aside, I realised a while ago that I have a most appropriate name - Alex - or aLex...
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roh oh! better plug this one into onelook, alex.
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  I have been lied to! O my wounded heart! Who would have thought that a teacher could be wrong?? What a shocking thought... I am distraught. However, the -lex of my name still counts, I think.
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Probably from Greek alexo -- ward off or defend, rather than anything to do with lego/lexis -- say, speak/speech, word
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 everyone is ruining my nice little bubbles. Guess I should be thankful, really, before I make any more blunders... but perhaps, at its very heart, alexo and lego/lexis are related anyway? I still can't believe that teacher told me wrong! 
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hang on another second--the medical dictionaries, Wikipedia aside, say this:
In retarded children, the presence of relatively advanced reading ability.
so it sounds like an idiot savant kind of thing; and your teacher wasn't
that far off with his "being able to read big words without understanding them".
it's just not a trait that I'd want to apply to myself. <g>
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