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   Shez to rre@mla001.demon.co.uk   
   Re: Practical magick.   
   01 Mar 05 19:24:28   
   
   XPost: alt.religion.wicca, alt.arts.poetry.comments, alt.writing   
   XPost: alt.magick   
   From: shez@oldcity.f2s.com   
      
   In article , Rob Evans   
    writes   
   >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   
      
   What's the matter Rob don't you know how to trim headers.. Do ask   
   someone they can explain in words of one syllable... then try to trim   
   your own headers,   
   --   
   Shez                         shez@oldcity.f2s.com   
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