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From: Jasper
Date: 14 Sep 2005
Time: 06:28:04 PM
Marilyn, …. The fist time I read the “scrambled” message, it took me awhile to see anything wrong with it. Sometimes everything I read looks like that, only the b’s, q’s and d’s are upside down. They move around a lot, too. In some lettering styles the m’s and w’s and the p’s, q’s, d’s and g’s are indistinguishable. I have to slow way down and use lots of tricks (counting, context, logic) to see what’s there. It takes me five times as long as normal people to read, write or type words like quit, quiet at quite. It takes double that time to proofread those words. I routinely leave out letters. I hardly ever get “believe” right the first time because I miss the second “e.” That’s why I use the spell checker and why it doesn’t work with everything I write. Her sometimes comes out “he.” Friends turn into “fiends.” Imaging what I can do with a word like “shift.” ……..Typing is easer than writing. The notes I took in college were useless because I couldn’t form the letters fast enough in the right order to make sense. Sometimes I would “borrow” so many letters from other words in a phrase or a sentence that the individual words (that was “worlds” before I checked it) could have spelled anything or nothing. ……..Then, of course, there are words I can’t spell on a good day and rules for spelling them that I haven’t mastered. Homonyms give me fits. Every time I write “here or hear,” “gait or gate,” “sole or soul,” “to, two or too” or “there, their or they’re,” I have to double check to see that I got it right. If I don’t, chances are even that I wont. ………Numbers are a special problem. Math is easy but arithmetic is hard. Thank goodness I have all my fingers and toes. –Jasper