I’ve always wondered whether dyslexia affects readers of character-based languages. Research on Chinese-reading children with dyslexia show a different part of the brain may be involved in their case than with alphabetic languages. The summary statement, as one neuroscientist put it, is “the neural basis of reading is complex.” A person can be dyslexic in one language but not another, and the different basis for recognition in reading the language is likely the distinction. Although the article does not point this out specifically, it follows then that dyslexia is actually the word for the symptoms or result of different brain anomolies, not the term for the physical anomoly itself.