Why bother learning to spell?

I just read that fluently! Goshness!!!

Psychologists proved that over here 20 years ago! There's a weird letter going around which if read slowly makes no sense at all! But if read quickly, one can't distinguish the spelling mistakes....even eyes have a soft blind spot which the letter emphasises via optic nerve connections!

Just spent ages trying to type a mixed up spelling reply, but I used to be a typesetter and ....... I......... just......... can't.......... do............ it! (Damn that muscle memory) [%sig%]

I can do it. ~:

Fbauolus! [%sig%]

Absolutely.

No no no..... Posilutely Absatively

Srroy Jpsear, yvuoe mesisd the pinot - you suiptd ltltie asuise tawt

ROFL.

Hahahaha. How come that all makes sense and yet every time I see the word Shopfitters I read shoplifters etc.

maybe this explains why adult learners such as my inmate students ... find it so difficult to improve their spelling ... if all ways LOOK right then how to decide which one is correct?

There is no way to decide which one is correct, fish. Its so bloody frustrating, even a good spell checker gives you multiple chose questions. You would think with time, us dyslexics would learn the differences, but no! I've been trying to master spelling for most of my life. I heat having to relie on some one to proof read every word I put on paper, but I have no chose. Fortunately, the person who dose that for me, doesn't consider my dyslexia to be a disability. Well. At least thats what she tells me. ~:

John Irving is one of my favourite authors and he's dyslexic, so go for it John. (My daughter is too and since I told her that Eddie Izzard is, she thinks it's coooooooool.) [%sig%]

ooooooo lou ... john irving is one of my lit idols ...

Fab. The World According to Garp has got to be my favourite (though there's a scene in the Somethingorother Pound Marriage, involving a nursery ski slope rope tow, that's probably the funniest thing I have ever read). He was also very dishy when he was younger... [%sig%]

I do Lou. I absolutely refuse to allow dyslexia to stop me from writing, or achieving anything I put my mind to. You should see the reaction of people who don't know me to well. "Did you wright this! But arnt you.... Well,.... Dyslexic? There so focused on the dyslexia, that they usually overlook that what I wright is probably crap. So you see, it has its advantages in a round about way.

Was the term 'dyslexia' chosen by dislexics? It's just that it's one of the few words they never seem to misspell :o)

hahahahaha. Well its the word I'm most familiar with Smiley. I'm a special child btw. ~:

Absolutely! My daughter Ellie is a natural when it comes to creative writing. I know I'm biased, but she really has come out with some remarkable stories for her age (the school have remarked upon it too). Also she has a reading age beyond her years despite the dyslexia. But, because she will spell the same word 30 different ways they have put her in the lower set for English. It really hacks me off because it's not good for her self confidence. Her work is totally understandable (going back to the topic of this thread), they know she's dyslexic, but it seems that they won't cut her any slack. We just tell her not to bother about it and that they don't know their asres from their elbwos. [%sig%]

My nine year old daughter just read that really fluently too - it's incredible. She asked me to point out though, that the word "you" in the last line, doesn't apply the rule. Yes, she is a smart arse.

:o)

*Dobs hat to nine year old doughtier* How right you are.

Well I am only 28 and I read it ...I deserve at least some murmur of applause as well as the 9 year olds. And I can tie my own shoelaces and when I've practiced joined up handwriting, write in pen instead of pencil.

*Gives Jude Big Clap*

thanks...that positive affirmation will set me up for a happy adulthood with a healthy psyche

Jude - here's a sticker - [Well Done!] [%sig%]

I want a star! A gold one please..

Oh all right - but only if you promise to stop stealing them off other children's charts... [%sig%]

Dam. I been rumbled.

Then you need to stop visiting that special site of yours John...seriously now.

Haven't been there for donks Flash. Honestly!!!

Hay! On a serious note. On my reply, three post up. I am sure I wrote 'I've' been rumbled. Absolutely Certain of it. Lately, I have been noticing missing letters in my forum responses. Don't suppose its possible that letters are lost in the up load of the post by any chance? Do any of you lexic people out there experience this? Or is me dyslexia getting worse.

I'm sure it happens to most people occasionally, John, even those who scan their posts twice on 'preview'. The problem for me is once I think I know what I've written, then that's what I read - it might be the day after before I suddenly notice that it's not what I actually posted. Mind you, most of the time it's simply that I type it in and post without checking...

I ever gert thhatt probble.

No sign of Ag since she mentioned "I LOVE the 'excelsior' stuffing" on the 'Holy Smoke' thread... wonder if she just couldn't bear the threat of the return of the thought police :o)

well bloody hell. Only now do I notice there's a 'preview' button.

well bloody hell. Only now do I notice there's a 'preview' button.kjheritage wrote: > I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was > rdanieg > The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid. Aoccdrnig to > rscheearch taem at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in > waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are,the olny iprmoatnt tihng > is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae.The > rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a > porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey > lteter > by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. > Such a cdonition is arppoiately cllaed Typoglycemia > Amzanig huh? Yaeh and yuo awlyas thought slpeling was > ipmorantt [%sig%]

I always get the first and last letter in the right places. Its the bit in the middle that gives me a hard time. *Just in case any of you lot think I illiterate, or something*

But kjheritage, may I respectfully point out that the plural of 'story' is not 'story's' but 'stories'. Spelling ain't all that, but punctuation is...

And John, we love ya, illiterate or not...;-)

Blushes. Sorry missi. Just had to say it.

OMG! Thats my first syber blush.. a.g. Your prowls has no bounds. ~:

heh heh, yeh, I'm good like that. *wink*