Sunday, May 4, 2008

Dyslexia

Dyslexia: (and the advantages of spell-check)
I am dyslexic (spell-check changed it without asking me) or as I sometimes say Dexlysic, and I was thinking where would I be without spell check, apart from entirely misunderstood. For those of you that tell me “you would have learnt to spell” your wrong. (I prefer writing to typing and I still haven’t learnt besides) I know how to spell most of the words I get wrong. Like the, my computer doesn’t even ask me anymore if I meant to spell ‘the’ or if I meant it when I typed teh, it just changes it for me. This was annoying just then when I wanted to type teh but most of the time it’s useful. Thing is dyslexia and people’s inability to spell is not the only thing that makes us make mistakes when typing, there is a very occasional but amusing mistake I make when typing, of shifting both my hands one key to the left (it would be good for code too.) it makes the last sentence I typed look like this; ur najes rgw Kar awbrwbxw u rtows kiij kujw rgua. (Spell check even changed the capitals from a word it didn’t know taking caps lock off.) Or after I spell check it using the first suggested word it looks like; urn names raw Kari (no spelling suggestions) u rows kin kiwi rogue. But it does not know what I did. Still I only do that when I am very tyred and have had too much caffine.

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