When I was in school students were taught to spell phonetically it didn't matter if you were blind or sighted. My fingers are very bad spellers. they don't seem to be able to learn. Grin. I know what Anne means by being a visual learner. I picture the word in my head. Sometimes it is easier for me to remember the spelling of a word if I see it in braille even if it has contractions. My problem with the spell checker is that when I misspell a word the spellchecker can't figure out what I was trying to spell
Rita----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Roderick" <rickrod@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 4:30 PM Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: spelling
Hi Ann,I think I learned to spell by both phonics and learn braille patterns. I remember seeing the word something contracted, and when I decided to spell it out in second grade, I spelled it s u m t h i n g. My error was explained to me by my resource teacher. After making that mistake, I figured that sumthing by that spelling would be an addition problem.Certain words give me problems, unless I think about them: barely and occurrence are among them. Some words are modern such as configurability. I don't know if I'm spelling that right.I have learned the limitations of spell checkers. I was in a work situation where we used an old version of DisplayWrite for the IBM System/36. When I ran the spell checker, I got woodpecker for WordPerfect.I am also annoyed that MS Word always want braille to be capitalized, which is in conflict with a BANA rule most of the time.When Ithink of brands that it took me some time to learn, one is QWEST. That just doesn't look right. How about Chick-fil-a? To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank Email to bookshare-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the Subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.-- No virus found in this incoming message.Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.0/1216 - Release Date: 1/9/2008 10:16 AM
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