XPost: alt.religion.wicca, alt.arts.poetry.comments, alt.writing   
   XPost: alt.magick   
   From: shez@oldcity.f2s.com   
      
   In article <6ihOLtGZafJCFwOy@mla001.demon.co.uk>, Rob Evans   
    writes   
   >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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