[bookshare-discuss] Re: names, pronounciation,

From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 23:02:01 -0700 (PDT)
Ah, good for me. smile Chayla is the way I was pronouncing your first name. I 
guess I retained something from my Spanish lessons. I was almost correct in 
your last name except I shortened the e sound a little--I thought less rather 
than long a.

Thanks for the definitions. White oak is beautiful, but chela is a much 
prettier word than its definition. 

G.Cindy




--- On Tue, 5/27/08, Chela Robles <cdrobles693@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Chela Robles <cdrobles693@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: names, pronounciation,
> To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Tuesday, May 27, 2008, 10:30 PM
> Anyway, back to pronounciation of my name Chela Robles, E
> sounds like
> long-A in Chela, my first name, phonetically spelled
> chayla, and my
> last name means white oak tree, in Spanish role the r in
> Robles and
> again the e is a long-A on the last part of Robles. Does it
> make sence
> now?
> Here is the definition of my name: chela. noun. pl. 
> chelae.  A
> pincerlike claw of a crustacean or arachnid, such as a
> lobster, crab,
> or scorpion.
> roble. noun.  A Californian oak (Quercus lobata) having
> leathery
> leaves and slender pointed acorns.
>    Also called white oak.
> God Richly Bless You,
> Chela RoblesAKA: Chris Botti
> Thanks E for that nickname, will definitely tell Chris
> Botti about
> that one, smile, and good night, finally, been one of those
> long days.
> 
> 
> On 5/27/08, Judy s. <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > LOL - I know just what you mean about the people who
> ask me all
> > about all the assistive stuff I use.  smile.  I can
> understand
> > the fascination, because I always felt the same way
> when one of
> > my blind friends used to make Thanksgiving dinner for
> all of us.
> >   She was a fantastic cook, and it always amazed me
> how she used
> > braille to mark all her cooking supplies, and used
> things like a
> > talking thermometer and other stuff to help her with
> the cooking.
> >
> > The mouse movement commands with Dragon rely on visual
> cues by
> > laying the screen out into a grid - but they do work
> very fast
> > and that part of Dragon works exceedingly well and
> easily.  I'm
> > not sure how it would work if you couldn't see the
> screen - but I
> > think Monica used Dragon for a while so there must be
> something
> > that lets a blind user know what it's doing.  The
> mouse stuff is
> > so spiffy that my husband sometimes uses Dragon while
> he is
> > keyboarding just so that he can barrel along and do
> mousing
> > without having to remove his hands from the keyboard. 
> It's
> > amazing how much speed you can pick up when you
> don't have to
> > switch from a keyboard to a mouse to click on
> something.
> >
> > The NY Times columnist David Pogue has severe carpal
> tunnel and
> > can't use a keyboard. He writes his columns on
> using Dragon, and
> > has written several books while using Dragon -
> technology books!
> >   My hat's off to him - I can't imagine doing
> technical writing
> > using Dragon!
> >
> > Judy s.
> >
> > Elfqueen wrote:
> >> Wow! you can move the mouse with a voice command?
> That just blows my
> >> mind. I probably sound exactly like hundreds of
> people who have either
> >> cornered me or sat me down and grilled me about
> screen readers or
> >> Braille or anything else (not that I mind at
> all...I had one person once
> >> who took notes on everything I said, LOL), but
> that's amazing to me. Do
> >> you know I once read an article about a woman who
> wrote a fifty
> >> thousand-word novel with Dragon? (Well, something
> in that vein.) She'd
> >> injured her hands years before and had to do it
> that way or not at all.
> >> "That's devotion," I thought. Over
> half of my fifty thousand would have
> >> been "Um...uh...what should I say
> next...um..." *smile*
> >>
> >> Oh, I love the things it's possible to do with
> computers if you mess up.
> >> It's great! LOL And embarrassing sometimes, of
> course. It wouldn't be
> >> technology if it didn't have the potential to
> annoy, embarrass, and be
> >> laughable all at once.
> >> Blessings,
> >> Nicole
> >
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