[dundee] having a conversation with your OS

[Digit (SG)]

Hi, my name is Digit, and I'm a dyslexic.  Before I say anything else, I am
taking a moment to express my gratitude to be here and to be free to share
with the rest of the Dyslexics Anonymous Group.  I've been unofficially
diagnosed with dyslexia for about 7 years now, since back when a mature
student and ex student councilor saw me typing one day, getting words the
wrong way around and going back correcting myself lots during the year
course we were both on at Dundee College.  I've never been diagnosed
officially, even though I've been told to help with my studies I would
receive a thousand pounds towards a PC (which buys a great heafin' lot of
computer these days).  The way i see it, I got through school without anyone
noticing until my last year of formal institutional education, so
considering I did not have access to a computer with a spell checker for the
first half of that, I think I am better off with the raised bar, the ankle
weights, left as they are... call it stimulus by challenge.  call it stealth
dyslexia.  ... call it spell checker.

I now use Linux, the folks with supposedly superior reading abilities use
inferior software, supposedly.  Dyslexia is not an impairment, if anything
it's an augment to see things more wholistically.

Hi, my name is Digit.

On 01/03/2008, Tim Spencer <samurai.mit at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yeah since i am dyslexic my father has bought several voice recognition
> programs (although i used them in German) over the years and i have failed
> them all (fond childhood memories of me and my friends sitting in front of
> the pc and talking and seeing what garbage it would produce, at the time
> this was very very amusing) my dad who has a grave english accent when using
> the german language never quite managed to get it to work for him in german,
> but, if i remember he managed to get it to work for english (with german
> text.  lol) This was when they first started to appear in the market in the
> 90s and one had to spend some 12 hours trying to make it recognize ur words.
>
> since then i have given up on these tools and rely on my typing (which
> thanks to google spell checker and firefox extensions has not been soooo
> bad) I remember trying to search for stuff in the web with the search
> strings being spelled terrible wrong and me not realizing for 30 minutes and
> getting very very frustrated.
>
> just thought i would share my deep rooted frustrations.
>
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The Universe speaks in many languages, but only one voice. The language is
not Narn, or Human, or Centauri, or Gaim or Minbari. It speaks in the
language of hope; It speaks in the language of trust; It speaks in the
language of strength, and the language of compassion. It is the language of
the heart and the language of the soul. But always, it is the same voice. It
is the voice of our ancestors, speaking through us, And the voice of our
inheritors, waiting to be born. It is the small, still voice that says: We
are one. No matter the blood; skin; world; star; We are one. No matter the
pain; darkness; loss; fear; We are one. Here, gathered together in common
cause. we agree to recognise this singular truth, and this singular rule:
That we must be kind to one another, because each voice enriches us and
ennobles us, and each voice lost diminishes us. We are the voice of the
Universe, the soul of creation, the fire that will light the way to a better
future. We are one.
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