i want some pike knowlage please

[Newt]

Here endeth the grammar lessons.

 

Suggestions for how & where to fish will be welcome. Further comments about writing style will not and will be deleted.

 

Attacking new members, no matter how gently done, is not what we are about.

[Angly]

May I just point that being dyslexic (which is the name applied to people who have below average learning and reading skills; it is not an illness that precludes improved learning and reading. Search for ‘The Dyslexia Myth’) does not prevent one from using either a spell and/or grammar checker.

{edit note: recheck your facts.

Factual account - http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=3138

 

Spell checkers require a word somewhat close to the desired one and the ability to recognize the correct one when the spell checker offers a selection. Severe dyslexics often cannot benefit from spell checking.

 

The same applies to grammar checkers.

 

Newt}

[Peter Waller]

Oh dear, what a reflection on AN! Andy & Newt, spot on.

[Neil G]

Personally I'd probably stick to fishing for carp etc., probably easier as there's hardly any pike left in rivers these days

[Chappa]

It's very easy to forget how you used to talk when you were 14 once you're north of thirty! I remember someone hearing me on a CB radio in 1981; "handles" 10:4, "roger Dodge", and I was roundly lambasted for speaking another language, incomprehensible to everyone else. How times change!

 

Swanyboii I'm certainly no expert, but you're well advised to fish for pike with someone who really knows what they're doing, maybe someone from the forum who lives not too far from you? It's very specialised and the fish are quite vulnerable to damage, especially once out of the water.

 

Welcome to the forum (from another new guy ) and good luck with the fishing.

[Andy Macfarlane]

May I just point that being dyslexic (which is the name applied to people who have below average learning and reading skills; it is not an illness that precludes improved learning and reading. Search for ‘The Dyslexia Myth’) does not prevent one from using either a spell and/or grammar checker.

 

What utter rot. My friend Dave is dyslexic. He can read but very slowly at that and it often takes him several attempts to read something. His writing is barely legible too. He is however, one of the most intelligent people I've ever known. He's a self-employed taxi-driver and landscape gardener. He writes and produces short stories and he's a talented musician. He's anything but below average intelligence. Dyslexia is an illness. That's what he's been diagnosed as having. You're also forgetting how many famous dyslexics there are who are hardly lacking in intelligence.

 

Some examples of 'thick' dyslexics.

 

Alexander Graham-Bell.....yes he was a right dafty.

 

Henry Ford.....yes, he could hardly use a spanner.

 

Albert Einstein.....couldn't put 2 and 2 together.

 

Leonardo Da Vinci.....could do a potato print to save himself.

 

Richard Branson.....He just sells records doesn't he?

 

Mohammad Ali.....just a daft boxer.

 

John Lennon.....I hear he wrote a couple of songs.

 

Walt Disney.....I think he drew cartoons.

 

Yes, you're right. Dyslexics are just people who have below average learning and reading skills....

[MikeT]

What utter rot. <snip> Dyslexia is an illness.

What utter rot. Angly said nothing at all about the relationship of dyslexia and intelligence. Dyslexia is most certainly NOT an illness- you’re quite wrong about that. I suggest you learn how to read for comprehension and inform yourself about dyslexia before you go round telling people what it is, otherwise you stand the risk of looking like a complete fool.

[Andy Macfarlane]

Angly said nothing at all about the relationship of dyslexia and intelligence

 

Yes he did.....

 

May I just point that being dyslexic (which is the name applied to people who have below average learning and reading skills

 

Quite clear. There in black and white.

 

Dyslexia is most certainly NOT an illness- you’re quite wrong about that. I suggest you learn how to read for comprehension and inform yourself about dyslexia before you go round telling people what it is

 

From the British Dyslexia Association....

 

Definition:

Dyslexia is a specific learning difficulty which mainly affects the development of literacy and language related skills.

 

It is likely to be present at birth and to be lifelong in its effects.

 

 

From the Cambridge Advanced Dictionary....

 

Dyslexia

 

noun

a difficulty with reading and writing caused by the brain's inability to see the difference between some letter shapes.

 

If it is a problem with the brain, it is a illness.

 

Illness

 

noun

1: a disease of the body or mind

 

 

I suggest you learn how to read for comprehension and inform yourself about dyslexia before you go round telling people what it is, otherwise you stand the risk of looking like a complete fool.

 

{comment deleted even though I happened to agree it. Newt}

[MikeT]

Andy, I’m not going to get into a discussion with you about the status of dyslexia as a medical disease. I can see that would be quite pointless, especially when you have Google and a dyslexic friend called Dave to educate you on the subject.

Edited November 27, 2008 by MikeT

[Peter M]

um why is everyone getting so touchy? can i just point out that when we see things in print they look more stark than they were meant to. No intonation you see that can soften the blow. i am constantly fire fighting at work due to email rage and i keep reminding people to take five and draw a breath. Lets just cool down and if you disagree with someone lets keep it polite (no name calling etc.)

 

Sorry mods if i have jumped in before you mentioned it but i have been on the site a long time so felt it would be alright.