by AUTOMAN » Tue Aug 15, 2006 10:53 am
No problem Paul, My problem with spelling is because when I was a child, I was taught an alternative alphabet calle "I.T.A". This anphabet used different symbols to those in the usual alphabet and words were spelt as they sounded. Back in the 1970's this method was considered advantagous for children with eye-sight problems as braille was the follow up to it. In Braille being made up of 6 dots in a block and there combinations of a few letters to make the letters, it gets even more complicated when you add the fact that words are then contracted down to symbols to make the word. After you have learned these 2 methods, if you were a child that could see a little, you were then tought the normal alphabet. So you can imagine what sort of confussion that leads to, you have to un-learn everything that you have been taught to date, but unfortunately, some things won't be forgotton. NOW add the fact that welsh was the language that I was taught in with English being added later, confussion is the least of my worries, I should have been locked away by now.
If it works Paul don't knock it, but you can tell people that the computer programme I use, does not allways recognise the contractions from Braille, so all this added together and I am suprised that there were only 4 spelling mistakes.
Thanks for sorting the problem out, I am greatfull.
I am printing off the new sponsor-form now.
Ian,
AUTOMAN.
Get them with the old, "I didnt write it Ian did and he's reg. Blind so how dare you criticise its quality, give the man a break" (at which point most are to assamed and then commit £5 !! LOL ) genius !
