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My Dave is a functional dyslexic....reads very well but has extreme trouble spelling and typing and those kind of responses are EXACTLY why he wont join TFP. Lucky for him the boards he's on understand that about him (and other members) and dont make a big deal out of it...but I have seen other people post on here with the same kind of problem and the only thing people can seem to say is...get spell checker, learn how to punctuate etc. Well let me mention that its not always that simple and I'll leave it at that.
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The spell checker and grammer checker helps. Especially if your skills are lacking. Mine are far from perfect, especially on the seplling front.
If you are missing a leg, I expect you to have an artificial leg, and do what you can to not inconvienience others. The same holds true of dyslexia.
Write up your posts elsewhere. Run them through spell checkers
and grammer checkers. Toss a disclaimer about your dyslexia in your .sig.
From your typing, it will be obvious you are either lazy, a child, or dyslexic. You can't be anonymous about it, so there isn't much point in not admitting it.
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I wonder if Einstein would encounter this if he lived in today's world?
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He would encounter far worse patents at the patent office!
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I write this in Office just so I have spell checker.
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Exactly. It is also a wonderful example of how a spelling/grammer checker isn't perfect (it is "so I have
a spell checker."), but Office misses that detail. It helps, but isn't perfect.
Both Grammer checking
and Spell Checking is needed. It will catch many 'spelling' mistakes that are misspellings.
Another good idea is google searching. It will give you the correct spelling of the word, and the context in which it is used. Admittedly, this is more useful if your problems are less severe.
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if you take the time to educate yourself its very obvious when you're dealing with someone that has a form of dyslexia...
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True, but "apologies for any bad grammer and spelling above -- I have problems with dyslexia" in the signature works on anyone who is aware of dyslexia, not only those who are skilled enough to recognize it.
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If the spelling and grammar nazis are half as smart as they think they are then they can figure out what the poster is trying to say. I don't care if it bothers you. Nobody forces you to read or reply to a post with bad grammar.
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Personally, when I bother to correct spelling and/or grammer, it is because I almost didn't bother reading it. Malformatted text, badly formed sentances and unrecognizeable words will, after a point, make me not read your post. And I'm not the only one.
And you know what? My reading speed is about 10 times slower on words misspelled like that than it is on well writen prose. This is a cost I'm reluctant to pay. Plus, there is loads of context there, and the misspellings are more patterned than you'd like tho think.