XPost: alt.religion.wicca, alt.arts.poetry.comments, alt.writing
XPost: alt.magick
From: rre@mla001.demon.co.uk
In message , Shez
writes
>In article , Rob Evans
> writes
>>In message , Shez
>> writes
>>>.
>>>I have dyslexia... what's your problem... Or did you imagine that
>>>spelling things correctly made you intelligent...
>>
>>It's a convenient dyslexia that allows you to spell dyslexia.
>
>Its a convenient spellchecker that puts right my spelling of dyslexia..
>Their are such things as spell checkers and dictionary's for dyslexics
>that pick up most of the spelling mistakes that we make.
>I cant see the mistakes I make that is part of the problem with
>dyslexia, that my brain doesn't see the written word in the same way
>that yours would.
>However even before the spellchecker and the dictionary came out, I had
>kept my own references of the correct spellings for many words.
>Dyslexics tend to be orally brilliant if they are confident people,
>though they do have a tendency to stutter or come out with the most
>amazing spoonerisms when tired... They make good speakers, and they have
>the ability usually to jump from one idea to another and make
>connections that are missed by other people.
>President Kennedy was dyslexic. and a suprising number of millionaires,
>inventors and ideas people have that problem. Being able to spell is not
>going to hold you back if you have talent. Its cheap enough to hire
>someone who can spell... Its not cheap to hire ideas people.
>I had one boss who would willingly go over everything I wrote and spell
>check and grammar check it.. She couldn't afford to lose me, and if she
>was not around her secretary got the job.
>Eventually I got the secretary and spelling and grammar wasn't a
>problem.
>>
>>>When you reduced to abusing people on their spelling your proving you
>>>don't have the imagination to come up with a decent insult, its the
>>>petty and desperate who need to point out spelling mistakes.
>>>
>>Generally people don't get abused for poor spelling unless they are
>>stupid enough to do so when lecturing others on their poor writing
>>skills. If you want to play school marm, you need to stay at least one
>>primer ahead of the rest of us.
>
>(Chuckle) I don't need to stay a primer ahead of the rest of you, you
>make things easy by misspelling in a way that even I can pick up.
>The poor writing skills I have seen are a lack of vocabulary, a lack of
>imagination, and a lack of use of the English language which is rich
>indeed .
> For those who profess to be poets I would expect an exceptional
>vocabulary and use of words.and an imagination that takes flight. What
>do I find.. Plodding people who worry about spelling and grammar and
>don't notice what the words actually say.
>
>Your right in one thing I have taught people, I taught them how to
>communicate with each other, something I am extremely good at, and how
>to be confident and sure of themselves in any situation. Something I am
>also extremely good at :)
>The written word is not the only form of communication, speech, body
>language even intonation all make words special, To rely on words on a
>page alone is missing most of the picture.
>If you find me acerbic then remember that I do not like people who
>invade other newsgroups and then abuse the denizens of that news group.
>
>If you want me to go away.. Its easy, take out alt wicca and alt pagan
>from your headers and stop posting to those groups, I will disappear
>like magick I can assure you.
>
Nah - we have our own magic way of collecting eccentrics (I love the
idea of being so confident that you have to tell people you're
confident) and I think you'll keep coming back for a while.
Rob
--
Rob Evans
When I see a swine
I reach for 45-calibre pearls.
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)
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