| i have dislexia (cant spell the best)
Posted: 5/18/2008 1:28:05 AM | Okay I am here to throw another opinion 
if repeated often enough, becomes attention seeking,
YES true at times but in my absolutely positively humble opinion...when some people feel others haven’t understood or heard them they will keep going on and on about the matter until they feel they have been understood.
and re message 23:
Truly intelligent people would never ridicule someone because of their short comings in life.
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| i have dislexia (cant spell the best)
Posted: 5/18/2008 1:50:09 AM | Pardon me for being pedantic....my personal opinion is that a person's spelling ability is not about intelligence, it's about their level of education. My opinion only.
I'm tired of hearing how shocking it is that somebody can't spell. Three of my ex's can't spell to save their lives, but I never thought of them as unintelligent. Having said that, sometimes we make typos that are highly amusing.
We're all different, with a variety of skills, interests and concerns. That's what makes this an interesting place to be. Personally, I wouldn't have it any other way.
I find it very small minded to so concerned about spelling, when it is such a huge part of communicating on the net. Isn't it the same as saying that somebody who can't run fast shouldn't be playing sport? Or that somebody who can't draw a stick figure should never pick up a paiint brush? Do those comparisons sound ridiculous? Well, it's exactly how I feel about pointing out that somebody can't spell. So what????
How would you feel if you were someone who had trouble with letters, and it was a continual point of contention with your fellow forum members? I think I would feel less worthy than everybody who can spell, and that's not okay. Open your minds and have a little think before you type stuff that is trivial and WILL hurt less confident souls than yourself.....this is not aimed at anyone in particular, btw.
As long as you get the point, does it really matter?
Build a bridge......get over it. | |
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| i have dislexia (cant spell the best)
Posted: 5/18/2008 1:52:59 AM | And before I get off my soapbox...to those of us who find spelling and writing easy - we should thank God , our teachers and our parents for creating a child who has the capacity to easily recognise and understand the function and use of the printed word.
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| i have dislexia (cant spell the best)
Posted: 5/18/2008 1:55:36 AM | ...when some people feel others haven’t understood or heard them they will keep going on and on about the matter until they feel they have been understood....
At last!!! Someone understands this is the reason that people keep suggesting (helpfully) that, to some, spelling really does matter. | |
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| i have dislexia (cant spell the best)
Posted: 5/18/2008 2:15:28 AM | At last!!! Someone understands this is the reason that people keep suggesting (helpfully) that, to some, spelling really does matter.
Okay that makes sense....but and but for people who do go on and on and on about this matter....wouldn't be nice if they nicely just email the person rather than humiliating the person???
Maybe they can even see if they could (helpfully) help the person with the spelling problems...now that would be a good way.... if I see a person making a mistake I won't shout in front of others what the mistake was but will gently and indirectly let them know and if I could help I'll (helpfully)help.  | |
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| i have dislexia (cant spell the best)
Posted: 5/18/2008 2:22:27 AM | I can not spell very well, do not feel dumb it just frustrates me!! 
There is no common sence to spelling some words!!
But girls i can change a puncture in two mins, which is more important when we are out for a long drive  Common sence some people just do not have it. 
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| i have dislexia (cant spell the best)
Posted: 5/18/2008 2:23:44 AM | Not being a perfect speller is not really a problem outside of most areas in life (excepting professions or environments which require a high standard of spelling and grammar ability such as law or university). The main problem for me with people who can't spell properly is that I can't read their writing, and for that reason I don't understand what they try to say. Bad spelling and grammar really disadvantage the person trying to communicate, and also makes the message they are trying to communicate to someone else hard to understand.
It also puts them at a disadvantage in many other ways as well, such as when they try to apply for a job (many employers consider a badly written CV a red flag which disqualifies you for an interview), in everyday life (you can't understand many important messages and documents which you come across) and in other ways as well; many people in gaol for example, as well as many of the poor in society, have deficient skills in writing and reading. Bad spelling and grammar is also a turn off for me as well, if I were looking at a dating profile.
Standards may seem unfair, but it is important if you lack skill or ability to do everything you can to improve that weakness, lest you be left behind in this competitive world. I don't go out of my way to correct or point our mistakes in spelling and grammar when I see them, but I also stop reading a badly written post after the first few sentences and don't bother try going any further to get the poster's intended meaning. | |
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| i have dislexia (cant spell the best)
Posted: 5/18/2008 2:26:18 AM | I can totally relate to message 32. I can spell pretty well but it isn't a good indicator of how successful I am in the every day things. I ran out of fuel in the school bus the other day, just because I forgot to fuel up. Soooo embarassing. And being able to spell didn't save me. I had to borrow 20 litres of diesel off a farmer to get going again. | |
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| i have dislexia (cant spell the best)
Posted: 5/18/2008 3:26:41 AM | | Is it just me or has anyone else noticed how some people create these inflammatory threads obviously designed to get us all banging heads, then just disappear and never have another word to say on the subject? Like they're just sitting back laughing at us all arguing... It's no skin off my nose, I luuuuuv a good argument, but some people seem to get all hot under the collar about stuff, I wonder how many of us are genuine, or just shit stirrers? | |
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| i have dislexia (cant spell the best)
Posted: 5/18/2008 3:33:29 AM |
Like they're just sitting back laughing at us all arguing...
Oh then they are wrong because we are not arguing ...we are just getting to know each other better and becoming such good friends....  | |
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| i have dislexia (cant spell the best)
Posted: 5/18/2008 3:38:13 AM | | yeah that's exactly how I see it Goddess but some people seem to take it all so seriously and get upset, when at the end of the day who knows who we are really talking to? | |
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| i have dislexia (cant spell the best)
Posted: 5/18/2008 3:40:40 AM |
just because I forgot to fuel up
That happens to me all the time. Like just last week, I ran out of petrol again and had to walk to the servo which was about 2k's away, and it was raining.
But I can spell! The fact I can spell didn't save me from running out of fuel, or getting wet tho!  | |
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| i have dislexia (cant spell the best)
Posted: 5/18/2008 5:34:59 AM | Evidence suggests that dyslexia results from differences in how the brain processes written and/or verbal language. Although dyslexia is the result of a neurological difference, it is not an intellectual disability. Dyslexia occurs at all levels of intelligence; sub-average, average, above average, and highly gifted.
I have an above average IQ... supposedly, though I think the monkey doing the sums got it wrong on that one... and though am mildly dyslexic with the written word I am some what chronic with numbers... you say 87 I see,hear, remember 78....the brain is an amazing lil universe all its own....there is very little logic in our french/english language at times, in written form at least...I think the idea of judging others on their ability to spell is kinda limiting... but must admit the lazy semi text sms style tends to burn the neurons a bit short | |
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| i have dislexia (cant spell the best)
Posted: 5/18/2008 5:46:44 AM | | If the worst thing that happens to you in a day is seeing a word spelt incorrectly........well f#ck me.... your doing alot better than some. | |
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| i have dislexia (cant spell the best)
Posted: 5/18/2008 6:16:50 AM | My eldest daughter was generally a good kid, but had started getting into trouble at school, wasn't completing work, and had started to become disruptive, her progress in school was beginning to become a concern. Whilst she had poor results in reading / spelling / writing, she wasn't bad enough to warrant any extra help from the school. So we had her tutored. After 6 months with little improvement we had her tested. The results where amazing, she was given a passage to read, it took her around 5 mins to read a few lines, constantly pausing, struggling to read something someone half her age could do with ease. Then the teacher/tester covered another passage with a coloured piece of transparent film and the difference was amazing. She blitzed it. It was like listening to a completely different child. She was diagnosed with a form of dyslexia (Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome (SSS)/Irlens Syndrome) which means that there is a deficit in the magnocellar visual neurological pathway.
Dyslexia or SSS is a type of visual perceptual problem. It is not an optical problem. It is a problem with how the nervous system encodes and decodes visual information. Academic and work performance, behaviour, attention, ability to sit still and concentration can be affected. Individuals with this problem see the printed page differently than those with normal vision and must constantly adapt to distortions appearing on the printed page, although they may not realize that they do this.
Over the years, the term dyslexia has been given a variety of definitions, and for this reason, some teachers have resisted using the term at all. (I was told by my daughters school counsellor that dyslexia didn't exist!) Although there is no universally recognized definition of dyslexia, the one presented by the World Federation of Neurology has won broad respect: "A disorder manifested by difficulty in learning to read despite conventional instruction, adequate intelligence, and sociocultural opportunity." In fact most dyslexics are of average to high intelligence. Some famous dyslexics include: Albert Einstein, Thomas Eddison, Nelson Rockafella,
F W Woolworth, George Paton, Hans Christian Anderson (had difficulty in reading and writing but for years people have cherished his wonderful stories), Agatha Christie ( had a learning disability called dysgraphia, which prevented an understood or legible written work. As a result, all material had to be dictated to a typist/transcriptionist.)
This was how it was explained to me:
We dont see a picture/text as it appears to us, it (much like your tv/computer screen) is made up of millions of little coloured dots, neurons transmit these dots to the brain where they form the picture of what we are seeing. In people with SSS the neurons that transmit the dots dont function as they should, so instead of seeing the picture as it should be, its distorted. i.e. words back the front/upside down/shadowy print/blurry writing. It is believed that red light disrupts magnocellular tasks and that the use of blue filters (which filter red light) results in an improvement in reading performance. A single-subject study carried out in the US Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division purports to demonstrate, among other things, that the Irlen effect (SSS) is real, and that varying the energy spectrum presented to the eye of this dyslexic individual was capable of altering visual and cognitive performance for better or worse, to a significant extent.
In my daughters case she was prescribed a pair of tinted lens (Irlen lens), to help correct the problem. Her reading improved immensely. Her reading age went up by 3 1/2 years in the space of 6 months, her improvement in the rest of her school work was just as good.
Oh and it usually runs in families. Which doesn't surprise me, in fact I quite often get things back the front. (i.e. k instead of d on the keyboard, same finger position opposite hand).
So now before I post I am going to read this several times to make sure I haven't misspelt / or swapped / or missed any words.
PS spell check doesn't work when you interpret was for saw | |
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| i have dislexia (cant spell the best)
Posted: 5/18/2008 4:09:07 PM |
If the worst thing that happens to you in a day is seeing a word spelt incorrectly........well f#ck me.... your doing alot better than some.
Coal Chamber sounds the alarm...... to alert the villagers of a spelling infringement.
You're quite right, CC...everybody knows 'f#ck" is spelt like this "f*ck".
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