XPost: alt.religion.wicca, alt.arts.poetry.comments, alt.writing   
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   From: rre@mla001.demon.co.uk   
      
   In message , Shez   
    writes   
   >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,   
      
   I'm confident of my ability to trim headers.  I have clearly rejected   
   that possibility - that's why you're reading this.  Eventually we'll   
   lose contact but, for the moment, I'm quite enjoying the cross-cultural   
   exchanges.   
      
   Rob   
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   Rob Evans   
      
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