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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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?