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| 165.1 | Dyslexics Untie! | DSSDEV::SPINE | Tom Spine | Mon Mar 31 1986 14:01 | 1 |
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| 165.2 | | ERIS::CALLAS | Jon Callas | Mon Mar 31 1986 15:39 | 1 |
| Shouldn't that be "lysdexics"?
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| 165.3 | dyslexics do it backwords | NY1MM::BONNELL | Jersey Girl | Thu Apr 03 1986 17:02 | 1 |
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| 165.4 | | DONJON::MCVAY | Pete McVay | Fri Apr 04 1986 08:16 | 11 |
| This sentence from "Moby Dick" was in the New York TIMES a few years
back, showing how an average sentence might appear to a dyslexic:
"It is a thiug unot nucommouly happeuing to the whale-doats iu
those swarmiug seas; the sharks at timesaqqareutly followiug them
iu the same qresciut way the vnltnres hover over the dauuers of
marchiug regimeuts in the east. Bnt these were the first sharks
that habdeeuodrsved by the Pepnob siuce the White Whalte habeeufirst
becreib..."
Pete_always_one_to_break_up_a_joke_with_a_lecture_McVay
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| 165.5 | Laud HO! | CANYON::MOELLER | | Fri Apr 04 1986 12:51 | 2 |
| ...............and yiou actnally SAUED that issue jus twanting for
this oqqortniny...........
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| 165.6 | Are they asleep? | 43353::GOODENOUGH | Jeff Goodenough, IPG Reading-UK | Tue Apr 08 1986 12:22 | 7 |
| I'm surprised this note hasn't been jumped on by the DEC moralists,
threatening the usual Company policy of instant dismissal for making
fun of physical handicap.
Tihs is bltnata dicsrinimatino!
Jeff.
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| 165.7 | But it's not sexist! | 11550::BLINN | Dr. Tom | Tue Apr 08 1986 23:14 | 0 |
| 165.8 | Sexist is one of many | VOGON::GOODENOUGH | Jeff Goodenough, IPG Reading-UK | Wed Apr 09 1986 07:09 | 13 |
| Re .7 Your caption implies you inferred that by "DEC moralists"
I was obliquely referring to edp. That's not so. While I disagree
with some of the things edp says, I've never felt a need to malign
him. He is debating points of language which I find very interesting.
What I was really referring to was the habit of (usually) Americans
to take extreme offence at the (usually) innocent (usually) European
sense of humour. Yes, and the subject is (often) sexist.
I got the impression that Americans were forbidden by law to have
a sense of humour - I'm glad there's hope for us yet :-) :-)
Jeff.
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| 165.9 | Sexims...Sexmis...Exsmis.. | 3270::LEVAN | Susan E. LeVan | Thu Apr 10 1986 18:19 | 6 |
| Actually, I was kinda shocked when I first saw this note but I decided if it
was offensive I just wouldn't read it. However, I tried out the title on a
dyslexic friend the other day (more fnu). He didn't laugh (he must be British)!
Sue
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| 165.10 | Isn't Exsmis a married womna? | VOGON::GOODENOUGH | Jeff Goodenough, IPG Reading-UK | Tue Apr 15 1986 10:02 | 1 |
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| 165.11 | Ayuh imagine so | TOPDOC::LEVAN | Susan E. LeVan | Mon Apr 21 1986 16:30 | 0 |
| 165.12 | Old Glutton Butts | SWSNOD::RPGDOC | Have pen, will travel | Fri Aug 15 1986 17:29 | 1 |
| U.S. Army General George S. Patton was dyslexic.
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| 165.13 | Item from The Times | COMICS::DEMORGAN | Richard De Morgan, UK CSC/CS | Tue Oct 13 1987 10:37 | 21 |
| From Today's Times:
Susan Hampshire, the ctress who is one of Britain's best known
dyslexics, congratulates Victoria Weller [photograph], aged nine,
a fellow sufferer who won a poetry competition organized by the
Dyslexia Institute.
Yesterday's prize-giving marked the start of Dyslexia Week and the
launch of a #1.5m appeal. The organizers of the week, the British
Dyslexia Association, say their aim is to combat the effects of
government cuts and ignorance among teachers which combines to
deny specialist help to more than 290,000 dyslexic children in England
and Wales.
The Association says that many teachers refuse to recognize the
condition of dyslexia, and even if they do so, their local authorities
do not have sufficient resources to provide suitable help.
Dr Harry Chasty, director of studies at the Dyslexia Institute,
says that 5% of all children in England and Wales had [sic] severe
problems.
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| 165.14 | There's always a silver lining. | GRNDAD::STONE | Roy | Tue Oct 13 1987 15:46 | 7 |
| This may not be quite the right topic for this one, but it's probably
as good as any....
I heard the other day that there one good thing about having
Altzheimer's (sp?) desease...
Your're always meeting new people!
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| 165.15 | | NRMACU::BAILEY | I am the hoi polloi | Thu Sep 20 1990 19:03 | 11 |
| This "discussion" of dyslexia reminded me...
A few years back, my mother was teaching in a private school (in the UK). Quite
a lot of the pupils were spoilt brats who could be described as having problems
with learning. Suddenly, they all became dyslexic - nothing to do with the
suddenly increased awareness of the condition due to the publicity surrounding
Susan Hampshire, of course! The parents seemed quite happy to attribute their
kids' problems to an illness (particularly a fashionable one), rather than
recognising that there was something wrong in their upbringing.
Chris.
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| 165.16 | | XANADU::RECKARD | Jon Reckard, 381-0878, ZKO3-2/T63 | Thu Sep 20 1990 20:06 | 7 |
| And, in the same vein as MADD - Mothers Against Drunk Driving - there's DAM
Mothers Against Dyslexia
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| 165.17 | | SSDEVO::EGGERS | Anybody can fly with an engine. | Fri Sep 21 1990 01:11 | 4 |
| It's all a FAD ---
Fathers Against Dyslexia
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| 165.18 | At the risk of Raising More Hackles... | SOFBAS::TRINWARD | Careful Don't Step in DECrap | Fri Jun 21 1991 18:09 | 10 |
| Of course you know about the Dyslexic Agnostic Insomniac:
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SPOILER ALERT!!! SPOILER ALERT!!!
SHe stayed up all night, worrying about whether or not
there is a Dog...!
- SteveT, who_wishes_he_had_more_time_for_this_Note
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| 165.19 | or.... | CALS::GELINEAU | | Thu Jun 24 1993 11:42 | 9 |
| re a couple back
or there's DAMM - drunks against mad mothers
-ag
who is not at all sticking to the original topic
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