I'm going to be daring and post this without a spell checker. I think I've metioned before that I'm dyslexic. The ironly that I have earned most of my money in the last 20 years as writer, is not lost on me. I am aslo mildly dyspraxic which means that even though I am a touch typist, I cna often swap around the key strikes across keys eg hitting i instead of e and g instead of h or typing whloe words out of turn like adn instead of and and teh instead of the etc. These are common typos but I do it all the tyme.
Interesting I have just typed tyme instead of time, normally I would immediately backsapce (darn - AGAIN god I had no idea how much I did the mistakes) and edit as I wrote. Dyslexia in action. So for most of this post I have backspaced when I have been suddenly aware of an error but I am not going to go back and correct - so you can see what a godsend a spell checker is for people like me. If ONLY I could have used oen at school, my grades whould (AGAIN) have been so much better.
I feel a bit odd being htis (AGAIN) honest in a post. I really wish they were a bit more canny though, and pcik (AGAIN) up common errors - perhaps there could be oversensitive mode and you could select it to churn up "did you mean form or from".
Now I am going to be brave, not read this back and post.
I hide my dyslexia at work. I use spell check, proof read under a lamp with a ruler, and confide in one or two people who will proof read for me.
Interestingly I don't like the wiggly lines coz they break the creative flow. If you are mid thought, the last thing you need is to be thrown off by a o-god-how-the-hell-do-i-spell-that-moment. If you are writing fiction, I suggest switching off altogether and forgetting about it. The most important things, if I can use painting for an analogy, is to get the broad brush work done first, you can mop up the drips later.
Question - has anyone written a spell checker for dyslexics?
I feel a bit silly now; I wrote that entire poll without dyslexia crossing my mind even once. After your first post, my blood ran cold and I hastily checked the poll wording to see if I'd said anything that might have been hideously insensitive or offensive to dyslexics. I couldn't find anything, fortunately (and presumably neither did you or I'd have known about it :-), but I still feel silly for having completely forgotten dyslexia even existed – particularly as it came up on this very LJ only a week ago!
It's FINE to talk about any subject you like - you are always gonna trigger a dif point of view. And that's good isn't it? I found it interesting from my perpective to be more aware of this because it is almost second nature to me to cope as best I can. It's not a level playing field. The comments I do find offensive are those who judge others by their ability to spell. Even now there are people who don't believe that this way of being exists. It is associated with the autistic spectrum and I think if more knew that they would be a bit more circumspect.
I've won awards for my writing and I have just today won a tender for a copywriting job for a brand new client! So I bless the software engineer who invented spellcheck once more and I reassure myself that writing and spelling are two different skills.
If you really feel you need to make it up to me - write me a spellchecker for dyslexics - that doesn't do shit grammer. ;-)
I'm interested by the idea of "a spellchecker for dyslexics". I'm not sure I clearly understand how it would differ from a spellchecker for everyone else.
The only thing I can immediately think of is that dyslexics might tend to make different classes of error, so that the algorithm for looking at a misspelt word and guessing what word it was supposed to be might benefit from some adjustment. Is that what you mean, or is there some totally other difference which I haven't thought of?
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Interesting I have just typed tyme instead of time, normally I would immediately backsapce (darn - AGAIN god I had no idea how much I did the mistakes) and edit as I wrote. Dyslexia in action. So for most of this post I have backspaced when I have been suddenly aware of an error but I am not going to go back and correct - so you can see what a godsend a spell checker is for people like me. If ONLY I could have used oen at school, my grades whould (AGAIN) have been so much better.
I feel a bit odd being htis (AGAIN) honest in a post. I really wish they were a bit more canny though, and pcik (AGAIN) up common errors - perhaps there could be oversensitive mode and you could select it to churn up "did you mean form or from".
Now I am going to be brave, not read this back and post.
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I hide my dyslexia at work. I use spell check, proof read under a lamp with a ruler, and confide in one or two people who will proof read for me.
Interestingly I don't like the wiggly lines coz they break the creative flow. If you are mid thought, the last thing you need is to be thrown off by a o-god-how-the-hell-do-i-spell-that-moment. If you are writing fiction, I suggest switching off altogether and forgetting about it. The most important things, if I can use painting for an analogy, is to get the broad brush work done first, you can mop up the drips later.
Question - has anyone written a spell checker for dyslexics?
Oh sweetheart *HUG* you daft thing.
It's FINE to talk about any subject you like - you are always gonna trigger a dif point of view. And that's good isn't it? I found it interesting from my perpective to be more aware of this because it is almost second nature to me to cope as best I can. It's not a level playing field. The comments I do find offensive are those who judge others by their ability to spell. Even now there are people who don't believe that this way of being exists. It is associated with the autistic spectrum and I think if more knew that they would be a bit more circumspect.
I've won awards for my writing and I have just today won a tender for a copywriting job for a brand new client! So I bless the software engineer who invented spellcheck once more and I reassure myself that writing and spelling are two different skills.
If you really feel you need to make it up to me - write me a spellchecker for dyslexics - that doesn't do shit grammer. ;-)
The only thing I can immediately think of is that dyslexics might tend to make different classes of error, so that the algorithm for looking at a misspelt word and guessing what word it was supposed to be might benefit from some adjustment. Is that what you mean, or is there some totally other difference which I haven't thought of?