Boards beats school

ScumLord

I was terrible at English and especially spelling in school. Found out to late that I was dislopsic (what can't of evil prick makes the word for people that can't spell so hard to spell) but from years of forum activity I've found my spelling and grammar has come on in leaps and bounds and lately I've been very surprised to find the spell checker coming back to me with "no errors"

I'm fierce proud of me self altogether I think I deserve a star or a smiley face or maybe even an apology for all the beatings I got in school.

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ScumLord wrote: »

I deserve a star or a smiley face

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

dyslexic

and yes, I've also found that to be pretty strange.

Cloud

As principal here at the boards.ie school of learning, I hereby award you some extra stars.

Well done!

mkdon05

ScumLord wrote: »

even an apology for all the beatings I got in school.

sorry:D

ScumLord

I'm so happy I've decided not to set the principles car on fire.

Boards as a learning tool.

Who'd've thought it?

biko

Another "I heart boards" moment

cornbb

The grammar Nazis would say otherwise, but boards is a bastion of fairly decent english compared to the rest of the Internet.

Everyone should be proud of the high standard that, is maintained

Earthhorse

cornbb wrote: »

Everyone should be proud of the high standard that, is maintained

l,ol

Outer Bongolia

http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u190/KamotTom/awesome.jpg

seamus

It's more a matter of practice really. You don't learn good spelling by practicing it in school. You learn it by seeing the same words spelled correctly over and over agian.

Peyton Manning

*dyslexic, not dislopsic

*kind of evil, not can't of evil


No gold stars for you.

randylonghorn

cornbb wrote: »

The grammar Nazis would say otherwise, but boards is a bastion of fairly decent english compared to the rest of the Internet.

Actually true, though AH might not be the best example.

Archimedes wrote: »

No gold stars for you.

Oh, shurrup tf!

Karoma

cornbb wrote: »

The grammar Nazis would say otherwise, but boards is a bastion of fairly decent english compared to the rest of the Internet.

Everyone should be proud of the high standard that, is maintained

True enough. AH is not a good example, though.
OP: Avoid IRC. Kudos. There are courses available if you want to keep improving - with patient teachers and other people in the same situation as yourself, it wouldn't be like school.

2Scoops

ScumLord wrote: »

I was terrible at English and especially spelling in school. Found out to late that I was dislopsic (what can't of evil prick makes the word for people that can't spell so hard to spell) but from years of forum activity I've found my spelling and grammar has come on in leaps and bounds and lately I've been very surprised to find the spell checker coming back to me with "no errors"

I'm fierce proud of me self altogether I think I deserve a star or a smiley face or maybe even an apology for all the beatings I got in school.

Maybe you were just lazy at school?

Terry

I've never had a problem with spelling, but my grammar has certainly improved over the past couple of years.

On the downside, my one immaculate handwriting is now just a scrawl.

ScumLord

2Scoops wrote: »

Maybe you were just lazy at school?

Umm.. Ya that probably had allot to do with it too. I couldn't read my books they where so full of doodles.

Archimedes wrote:

*dyslexic, not dislopsic

*kind of evil, not can't of evil


No gold stars for you.

I refuse to spell disropey on principle. All other spelling mistakes where left in for comedy purposes.

besty

Terry wrote: »

On the downside, my one immaculate handwriting is now just a scrawl.

Exam time is a real eye opener - my once beautiful scroll has now degenerated into chickenscratch. Everything should be typed IMO.

Sam Vimes

it really is appalling that it took the OP so long to find out he was disropic. My girlfriend was 19 and in her second year of college when i watched her write a letter. In two paragraphs i spotted classic signs of disropia and got her to go and get tested.

she is disropic and now gets all the help in college that disropic people need, like having the notes given to her instead of taking them down and extra time for assignments and a few other things to take the pressure off. I know she would have got at least 100 points more in the leaving if she'd known about it instead of just thinking she was thick

how f*cking lazy/stupid must her teachers have been if they didn't spot in 14 years what i spotted in 1 minute?

do they not teach people to spot the signs when they're being trained ?

Sinfonia

Mordeth wrote: »

dyslexic

and yes, I've also found that to be pretty strange.

Same goes for 'lisp'.

Sam Vimes

ScumLord wrote: »

Found out to late

to is a direction. The correct word to use is too








sorry

wil

Commander Vimes wrote: »

.... My girlfriend was 19 ... In two paragraphs i spotted classic signs of disropia ..
she is disropic

Commander Vimes wrote:

to is a direction. The correct word to use is too
.
sorry

disropia, disropic?
Is this some new fangled affliction?
Or do I presume you mean 'dyslexia', 'dyslexic'.

Had a girlfriend who was dysclothesic in warm weather.:D

The word "to" is a preposition, OR used to show the infinitive form of a verb. A preposition shows the relationship between 2 words in a sentence. "I agreed to that", "I need to eat"
"Too" means also/as well OR used to show excess/more than should be.
Too far?;)

Too sorry to say too.:p

growler

wil wrote: »

", "I need to eat"
"

get a burger

wil

growler wrote: »

get a burger

too chez

ScumLord

Commander Vimes wrote: »

it really is appalling that it took the OP so long to find out he was disropic.

Well we are talking about 10 years ago (when I did the LC). It was worse when I was in primary (when I said I got beat up in school it was by the teachers I never got bullied by people my own age).

Or do I presume you mean 'dyslexia', 'dyslexic'.

Ya that's what I said disropiah!

seamus

A lot of people have had learning disabilities in this country which were never picked up on. They were written off as idiots or just being weak in a particular area.

My uncle (in his 60's now) was always bad at maths and was just considered in school to be weak at the subject. His brother (my Dad) was always good at maths however. A couple of years ago, he described to a doctor his difficulty with maths - numbers appeared backwards and upside down - and he went off to a specialist who diagnosed him with that particular "maths dyslexia" (can't remember the word for it). Funnily enough, when viewing white text on a black background, everything appears normal.

I'm pretty sure that thousands of people go through life without realising that everyone else isn't having the same difficulties that they are in these things.

zuutroy

You should OF known boards would help your grammar

Pigman II

Yeah that's all well and good but I bet your Maths and Irish have gone to bits.

seamus

seamus wrote: »

and he went off to a specialist who diagnosed him with that particular "maths dyslexia" (can't remember the word for it). Funnily enough, when viewing white text on a black background, everything appears normal.

Dyscalculia.

Sam Vimes

Myth wrote: »

Dyscalculia.

exactly, disrupeeah