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ex_infantry man wrote: »

was in rotherham before NICE place lol

The DMZ of South Yorkshire this place is; I really cannot emphasis just how 'not right in the head' I think the locals are.

A five-year old granddaughter is usually taken to school, daily, by her grandfather.

When he had a bad cold his wife took the grandchild.

That night she told her parents that the ride to school with granny was very different!!

"What made it different?" asked her parents.

"Gran and I didn't see a single tosser, blind bastard, dick-head, Asian prick or wanker anywhere on the way to school today!"

Edit
Apologies! Posted to wrong thread.
Mods please move to "best joke" section

It wasn't me! wrote: »

I dunno man, kinda suits this thread!

the truth is told

cruasder777 wrote: »

Not necessarily, some great writers and leaders inc Churchill could not spell to save their lives. Some very bright people are dyslexic.

Thast qiute teru. [King Carl Gustav of Sweden is dyslexic, and look where it got HIM.]

As for our old pal/palette 'investment', I note that we haven't heard anything from that direction for a while. I can only hope and pray that nothing trivial has happened to him/her.


tca

goldie fish wrote: »

Yet another ill informed individual who thinks dyslexia is linked to bad spelling.
Educate yourself please.

Thank you for those words of encouragement, much appreciated.

I had the privilege of being dyslexic in three languages before I even began school at age five, and count myself fortunate that I had a some great parents and teachers to help me, in spite of the fact that dyslexia, or 'word-blindness' as it was called in those far-off days, was a little-understood problem.

People like me just have to try a lot harder harder, that's all, and to my credit and that of my helpers, I have achieved a state of literacy, using correct spelling and syntax, that you see before you here.

It's odd to find out so many years later that being a principally left-handed ambidex could have been so useful - being able to write with either hand in either direction was the key to learning to fit in with the rest of humanity. My solution, and they are all, it seems, quite different, came about one day as I was sitting in a bus driving by a series of large department stores in central London. I was amusing myself by reading the reflection of the advertisements on the bus side and all of a sudden it all clicked for me.

From then on I had little trouble, and can write as well as anybody else - and better than many others, it seems. I was the author of over a hundred text books used by certain parts of the British Armed Forces and NATO, and for five years the Chief Instructor of one of the joint training establishments.

BTW, the word 'ill-informed' is hyphenated.

Best wishes

tac

PS - I've deleted a few spockling mistales, and incorporated a couple, just to give you something to take the p!ss out of, right?

Delancey wrote: »

TBH I have always thought Dyslexia manifested itself in reading and spelling issues , if its unconnected with spelling then what is it all about ?
Genuine question btw.

Mods - Please forgive the necessary thread drift, or pehaps let us start a new one.

Anyhow, responding to Mr Delancey's post - This seems to sum it up quite well -

Dyslexia is a very broad term defining a learning disability that impairs a person's fluency or comprehension accuracy in being able to read, and which can manifest itself as a difficulty with phonological awareness, phonological decoding, orthographic coding, auditory short-term memory or rapid naming. Dyslexia is separate and distinct from reading difficulties resulting from other causes, such as a non-neurological deficiency with vision or hearing, or from poor or inadequate reading instruction. It is believed that dyslexia can affect between 5 and 10 percent of a given population although there have been no studies to indicate an accurate percentage.

There are three proposed cognitive subtypes of dyslexia: auditory, visual and attentional. Reading disabilities, or dyslexia, is the most common learning disability, although in research literature it is considered to be a receptive language-based learning disability. Researchers at MIT found that people with dyslexia exhibited impaired voice-recognition abilities. Accomplished adult dyslexics may be able to read with good comprehension, but they tend to read more slowly than non-dyslexics and may perform more poorly at nonsense word reading (a measure of phonological awareness) and spelling. Dyslexia is not an intellectual disability, since dyslexia and IQ are not interrelated, as a result of cognition developing independently.

As I mentioned in my earlier post, much of this descriptive is non-applicable in many cases, my own especially, but is a generalisation used to accommodate remedial treatment.

I have never had any subsequent problem in reading; in fact, the average paperback is gone in an evening and going back over to Canada is a two-book journey, so obviously my problem was outside the scope of that description. As I noted, it was a sudden 'click 'in my head, and one that was pretty upsetting at the time. I remember instantly getting off the bus and going back home to tell my mom and dad, and how they were as amazed as I was.

One of my BAs is in modern languages, BTW......

tac