Responce - spelling rant

[EC8010]

Genuine dyslexia is rare.

... Genuine dyslexia is rare and generally obvious in a passage of text.

Exactly, sustained reading of genuine dyslexic prose turns your brains to porridge as you struggle to re-order the flow. Oddly enough, there was always a big peak in the numbers of students diagnosed "dyslexic" around exam time - mostly amongst the marginal students.

 

[poobah]

DYSLEXICS UNTIE!

 

[Nordic]

I am teh dyslexic of borg...
prepare to have your *** laminated...

...in robot voice...

 

[mpmarino]

DYSLEXICS UNTIE!

were yuo bin poobah? I havent saw you around in a long time!

 

[poobah]

Been working really hard dude... lots of projects right now.

Consulting means sitting on your butt for long periods and then working 'round the clock the same way.

Still lurking around a bit!

 

[pinkmouse]

I was overruled by the rest of the mods when I wanted to implement a week in the sinbin for incorrect usage of the apostrophe.

 

[Aengus]

Well, I would hope so.

Only a week?!

 

[poobah]

Oh no Pink,

is ['round] incorrect?

 

[pinkmouse]

Indeed it is, as the ' substitutes the missing letter "a".

 

[Shoog]

I'm amazed that those Spammers can't spell.

Shoog

 

[Christer]

'T is perhaps correct with 'round in shakespearian english?

 

[poobah]

The bear was white... 'nough said.

 

[pinkmouse]

You mean T', as a contraction of "the"? I can't recall it from Shakespeare's works (correctly capitalised ), but frequently used in t' Yorkshire dialect?

 

[poobah]

Cheque your spelling there Limey... I beleave that's "capitalized".

 

[Christer]

'T is true: there's magic in the web of it.

- Othello, Act III, Scene IV

and in many other places Shakespear does indeed sometimes write "'T is" for "It is". Most certainly the reason is to get the right number of wovels in a line.

 

[mpmarino]

Consulting means sitting on your butt for long periods and then working 'round the clock the same way.

If/wen they kan me I might try dat cinsulting stuff -seems the most poplar way 2 work 'round hair.

(wow, that's annoying! - )

 

[poobah]

Sure!

Look into Guru.com... good way to hook up with long term clients.

Make SURE you have 1 year's worth of expenses socked away FRIST. Mecagorp gave me a 1 year vacation when we parted company... for once I was lucky.

 

[cpemma]

FRIST

Mummy, the naughty boy's doing it on purpose!

Go away, naughty boy!

 

[poobah]

I did not!

Notice the clever dyslexic spelling of "did"...

 

[maxro]

'T is perhaps correct with 'round in shakespearian english?

Methinks it's one word 'tis. And, upon consultation of the Oxford English Dictionary, as previously suggested by Aengus, albeit a British edition, rather than the recommended Canadian, despite myself being a Canadian, indeed 'tis.

Oh, where are the run-on sentence police when you need them?

pee ess. Poobah, the proppa contrakshun iz 'nuff, not 'nough