Perceptions, Opinions & Reactions - Page 2

Alan · #26 (**permalink**) 08-12-2006, 10:19 AM

Aww that's better, can I hug too?

Alan

Susie · #27 (**permalink**) 08-12-2006, 10:20 AM

Absolutely, Alan, we're all friends here.

Edit: I assumed you meant hug me and not anyone else! lmao

Alan · #28 (**permalink**) 08-12-2006, 10:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Susie

Absolutely, Alan, we're all friends here.

Edit: I assumed you meant hug me and not anyone else! lmao

Lol.. of course, but a group hug is needed for some

Susie · #29 (**permalink**) 08-12-2006, 10:30 AM

Anyway, I think I have said everything I want to on this thread. Life's too short for disagreement and it would be nice if we could all get along together. I hope that isn't too much to hope for as I really don't like conflict and would rather leave than get involved in something that has nothing to do with me.

Alan · #30 (**permalink**) 08-12-2006, 10:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Susie

Anyway, I think I have said everything I want to on this thread. Life's too short for disagreement and it would be nice if we could all get along together. I hope that isn't too much to hope for as I really don't like conflict and would rather leave than get involved in something that has nothing to do with me.

Well said Susie, good on ya..

Besides, you've got packing to do

Alan

Airehead · #31 (**permalink**) 09-12-2006, 02:17 PM

I have been away for a little while and I come back to find you all having a scrap ...

Well, firstly it is a relief to find that I am not the only one who sometimes gets uptight but I must say that I have found people involved in this forum to be generally tolerant and broadminded. And that fact alone just shows how easy it is to give offence by a careless remark - which can be difficult to always avoid when grabbing a moment of one's time to view. It is equally easy to take offence when none was intended.

Now, the thing that really bugs me on this forum is the abysmally bad spelling from all you young things who did not have the advantage of a real education. Are you all suitably offended? (Especially the teachers) So have a go at me for that if you like!

Susie · #32 (**permalink**) 09-12-2006, 03:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Airehead

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Beryl · #33 (**permalink**) 09-12-2006, 03:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Airehead

I have been away for a little while and I come back to find you all having a scrap ...

Well, firstly it is a relief to find that I am not the only one who sometimes gets uptight but I must say that I have found people involved in this forum to be generally tolerant and broadminded. And that fact alone just shows how easy it is to give offence by a careless remark - which can be difficult to always avoid when grabbing a moment of one's time to view. It is equally easy to take offence when none was intended.

Now, the thing that really bugs me on this forum is the abysmally bad spelling from all you young things who did not have the advantage of a real education. Are you all suitably offended? (Especially the teachers) So have a go at me for that if you like!

I''m not invloved in this discussion and didn't want to be. But rgarding bad spelling . I for one (amongst other I'm sure) am quite dyslexic and even have a tough time knowing left from right and am extramly left orientated.

So havwe a little heart over the spelling please.

badgerwatcher · #34 (**permalink**) 09-12-2006, 03:35 PM

That's fab, Susie!

I admit to being a terrible speller, Airehead, (and I'm not one of the young ones)

but wouldn't be offended by someone commenting! I just miss my spellcheck on here!

badgerwatcher · #35 (**permalink**) 09-12-2006, 03:38 PM

Same here, Beryl.

It's part of being artistic! That's my excuse anyway.

Beryl · #36 (**permalink**) 09-12-2006, 03:46 PM

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Originally Posted by badgerwatcher

Same here, Beryl.

It's part of being artistic! That's my excuse anyway.

Yes, you are correcticus

If I'm not being told I'm thick , I being told 'm very inteligent but lazy. I have short term memory loss. I can look at a word writen on a pad beside me and rewrite it in a complete jumble

But I'm Happy .Got a lovely web site, I make peeps business cards ,greeting cards and alsorts.
For intance this little piece took over 5 mins to write and correct

wildone · #37 (**permalink**) 09-12-2006, 04:19 PM

I personally think that the reading through what you have written is the most important part. You then have the opportunity to correct any transposed or missed letters, see if the spelling looks right and that you have used the correct form when two or more words sound the same but have different spellings. Then press send.

Dorcas · #38 (**permalink**) 09-12-2006, 04:30 PM

For some reason I have always been able to spell - apart from when I'm tired and words get spelt totally backwards or when my nails are long and I can't be bothered to go back and retype.

In forums, meaning can be made a lot clearer in slang and ungrammaticus and smileys.

In real life, I'm sure we would check and recheck, but life's too short for forum spell checks.

Beryl · #39 (**permalink**) 09-12-2006, 05:05 PM

I don't alway know if a word is correct or how many Ts Fs Bs . Double consonants and ea or ee A dictionary is a very good thing.........if you know the second letter. I have a job finding certain letters F for one takes me all ove the key boade and can leed to frustration sometime. S, Z which way round do they go, some time I can't remember the shapes of the lettersespecilay S and F It is no joke. Thing is, it doesn't happen with numbers. I'm told my maths is brill.

Dorcas · #40 (**permalink**) 09-12-2006, 05:16 PM

lol funny that - both my folks were very good at maths

not me oh no - dyslexic with numbers

but very good at music - now work that one out lol

something to do with patterns I believe and being left handed

Susie · #41 (**permalink**) 09-12-2006, 05:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Beryl

Yes, you are correcticus

If I'm not being told I'm thick , I being told 'm very inteligent but lazy. I have short term memory loss. I can look at a word writen on a pad beside me and rewrite it in a complete jumble

But I'm Happy .Got a lovely web site, I make peeps business cards ,greeting cards and alsorts.
For intance this little piece took over 5 mins to write and correct

I'm mildly dyslexic but have got much better as time has gone by. I am fortunate in being able to read okay but I have trouble with writing. The formation of some of the letters of the alphabet just don't make logical sense to me - d,b,p are the ones which give me the most trouble. That being said I think I have cracked it now, but sometimes I have to stop and think which way round the letter should be before I write it down.

I am lucky to be a whizz on the keyboard though - it must use a different part of the brain - and any mistakes I make as I type are purely down to laziness on my part as I type as I think or speak and cannot be bothered to recheck it.

I will finish my post with the rallying call of the Dyslexic Society:-

"DYSLEXICS OF THE WORLD - UNTIE!"

lewisa · #42 (**permalink**) 09-12-2006, 06:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Dorcas

but life's too short for forum spell checks.

Absolutely. If this was a forum about language or literature, then it would be a given that bad spelling should be picked up and commented on/corrected.

Most language/literature forums have a rule that if you use bad spelling you should expect to be pulled up on it, many non-language forums have rules that it shouldnt.

Thats the way it should be I reckon.

Beryl · #43 (**permalink**) 09-12-2006, 06:30 PM

I believe dyslexia with numbers is called dyscalulier( Spelling) I could neve tell the difference betweem p q and b d I know the difference between s z but cannot always remember the shape if it isn't in front of me and as for the f , like I said I have to hunt for it.

Dorcas · #44 (**permalink**) 09-12-2006, 06:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Beryl

I believe dyslexia with numbers is called dyscalulier( Spelling) I could neve tell the difference betweem p q and b d I know the difference between s z but cannot always remember the shape if it isn't in front of me and as for the f , like I said I have to hunt for it.

I can't even SAY that lol you sure that's not a David Gest word?

Beryl · #45 (**permalink**) 09-12-2006, 06:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Dorcas

I can't even SAY that lol you sure that's not a David Gest word?

Ha ha . I spelled it wrong

Here is a link
Dyscalculia.org

Paul mabbott · #46 (**permalink**) 09-12-2006, 06:50 PM

Are you left-handed, perchance? The sort of thing that you're referring to has a lot to do with 'handedness'. Dyslexia or not, left-handed children tend to write b as d and vice versa ....

Using a keyboard is different because you're actually using spatial knowledge rather than memory .... or something like that ...

DYSLEXIA LURES, KO

Quote:

Originally Posted by Susie

I'm mildly dyslexic but have got much better as time has gone by. I am fortunate in being able to read okay but I have trouble with writing. The formation of some of the letters of the alphabet just don't make logical sense to me - d,b,p are the ones which give me the most trouble. That being said I think I have cracked it now, but sometimes I have to stop and think which way round the letter should be before I write it down.

I am lucky to be a whizz on the keyboard though - it must use a different part of the brain - and any mistakes I make as I type are purely down to laziness on my part as I type as I think or speak and cannot be bothered to recheck it.

I will finish my post with the rallying call of the Dyslexic Society:-

"DYSLEXICS OF THE WORLD - UNTIE!"

Garden Carpet · #47 (**permalink**) 09-12-2006, 06:53 PM

I am dyscalculate.. i cant do numbers.. lost a job cos i kept getting the accounts wrong.. and couldnt find where I had gone wrong... duh!. I cant spell either which annoys me as I used to be really good.. I think it is something to do with my health problems. Although I touch type I sometimes find that I swap P for B.. and S for C.. I type at a fair speed but on here I cant usually be bothered with caps...lazy me
jaki

PS. I am artistic, musical and left handed... someone else can work it out.

Paul mabbott · #48 (**permalink**) 09-12-2006, 06:55 PM

It's usually the other way around - musicians tend to be good at maths although useless at other sciences ....
And vice versa, many great mathematicians and physicists (just a variety of maths) have been major classical musicologists although I don't recall many being virtuoso players. Einstein was quite nifty on the fiddle but I suppose he had other things to think about ....

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dorcas

lol funny that - both my folks were very good at maths

not me oh no - dyslexic with numbers

but very good at music - now work that one out lol

something to do with patterns I believe and being left handed

Dorcas · #49 (**permalink**) 09-12-2006, 07:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Beryl

Ha ha . I spelled it wrong

Here is a link
Dyscalculia.org

me not got forked tongue....

ooops sorry one has not been created with a forcatus tongue

Dorcas · #50 (**permalink**) 09-12-2006, 07:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paul mabbott

Are you left-handed, perchance? The sort of thing that you're referring to has a lot to do with 'handedness'. Dyslexia or not, left-handed children tend to write b as d and vice versa ....

Using a keyboard is different because you're actually using spatial knowledge rather than memory .... or something like that ...

DYSLEXIA LURES, KO

left handed - no backward b or ds but very good at writing backwards and it was easier to learn the piano