Comments on: Dyslecsia / Dyslexia http://www.omniglot.com/blog/2007/06/01/dyslecsia/ language-related musings - one language is never enough / no n'hi ha prou amb una llengua Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:45:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 by: Ghotit http://www.omniglot.com/blog/2007/06/01/dyslecsia/#comment-81393 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:20:35 +0000 http://www.omniglot.com/blog/2007/06/01/dyslecsia/#comment-81393 Ghotit (www.Ghotit.com) offers unique writing and reading online services for people who suffer from dyslexia, dysgraphia or people who are not native-English speakers. Ghotit’s first service is an online context sensitive spell checker. What people have to say: My god I have been look for this for all-my life, help that understands me. I write with a dictionary and thesaurus and some times cant even find the word looking for. I could not hold back the tears from the emotion then when I worked out how helpful this spellchecker will be for me. • i really like it and i'm so glad i found it!! it will really help with my homework etc and my teachers wont get angry at me annymore!! • Thank you for contacting us with your product. I tinkered with the spell checker for sometime this morning, entering common mistakes that our dyslexic students (and ADD) students make in spelling. I must say that I am extremely impressed with your product and would certainly like to further evaluate it with our students over the next several weeks. • that spell checker is SO good, its actually waaay better than microsoft because it tells you the reasen why you are usuing the correct word. i really like it, its really good!! Ghotit (www.Ghotit.com) offers unique writing and reading online services for people who suffer from dyslexia, dysgraphia or people who are not native-English speakers. Ghotit’s first service is an online context sensitive spell checker.

What people have to say:

My god I have been look for this for all-my life, help that understands me. I write with a dictionary and thesaurus and some times cant even find the word looking for. I could not hold back the tears from the emotion then when I worked out how helpful this spellchecker will be for me.

• i really like it and i’m so glad i found it!! it will really help with my homework etc and my teachers wont get angry at me annymore!!

• Thank you for contacting us with your product. I tinkered with the spell checker for sometime this morning, entering common mistakes that our dyslexic students (and ADD) students make in spelling. I must say that I am extremely impressed with your product and would certainly like to further evaluate it with our students over the next several weeks.

• that spell checker is SO good, its actually waaay better than microsoft because it tells you the reasen why you are usuing the correct word. i really like it, its really good!!

]]> by: Colm http://www.omniglot.com/blog/2007/06/01/dyslecsia/#comment-49597 Tue, 05 Jun 2007 14:30:40 +0000 http://www.omniglot.com/blog/2007/06/01/dyslecsia/#comment-49597 Well the Americans started the project to reform spelling but didn't get very far... No-one wants to see their language change even if they agree it would lead to ease of spelling and even when change in inevitable. I speak differently from my grandparents and my grandchildren will speak differently from me. Whilst I go against the system now I will undoubtable complain about the speech of my grandchildren. :-D It's a fact of life, like death and taxes. However we should get rid of the idea that we can match spelling to sound as all across the world different nations and regions pronounce their letters (especially vowels) differently. A standard written system allows for ease of written communication. So we sacrifice a more phonetic spelling for greater global understanding. Well the Americans started the project to reform spelling but didn’t get very far…

No-one wants to see their language change even if they agree it would lead to ease of spelling and even when change in inevitable. I speak differently from my grandparents and my grandchildren will speak differently from me. Whilst I go against the system now I will undoubtable complain about the speech of my grandchildren. :-D It’s a fact of life, like death and taxes.

However we should get rid of the idea that we can match spelling to sound as all across the world different nations and regions pronounce their letters (especially vowels) differently. A standard written system allows for ease of written communication. So we sacrifice a more phonetic spelling for greater global understanding.

]]> by: rek http://www.omniglot.com/blog/2007/06/01/dyslecsia/#comment-49434 Mon, 04 Jun 2007 14:38:10 +0000 http://www.omniglot.com/blog/2007/06/01/dyslecsia/#comment-49434 Is there any chance of spelling reform for modern English? The only proposal(s) I've ever seen were jokes. Is there any chance of spelling reform for modern English? The only proposal(s) I’ve ever seen were jokes.

]]> by: renato figueiredo http://www.omniglot.com/blog/2007/06/01/dyslecsia/#comment-49275 Sun, 03 Jun 2007 22:53:28 +0000 http://www.omniglot.com/blog/2007/06/01/dyslecsia/#comment-49275 My sister Lilian, when was a child had 6 different kinds of dyslexia, in Portuguese language ( I remember 4 of them) P-b, m-n, d-t, g-c the word pot she said bot the moon she said noon dot changed to tot get changed to cat This was a real problem for my mother who had to work out, and early in morning she had to give breakfast with milk, in Portuguese milk's cream is NATA, and NADA means nothing. My sister everyday sais she didn't want anything to beakfast, but as she had dyslexia my mother understood that my sister didn't want only milk's cream I don't want nothing would be Eu não quero NATA,(the correct sentence is Eu não quero nada (ENGLISH- I don't wan't cream to I don't want anything. After bothering a lot my mother I had to enter into the homely war to say that besides she didn't want NATA (cream) she also didn't to eat anything. So mummy went work at 7 AM stressed everyday My sister Lilian, when was a child had 6 different kinds of dyslexia, in Portuguese language ( I remember 4 of them) P-b, m-n, d-t, g-c
the word pot she said bot
the moon she said noon
dot changed to tot
get changed to cat
This was a real problem for my mother who had to work out, and early in morning she had to give breakfast with milk, in Portuguese milk’s cream is NATA, and NADA means nothing. My sister everyday sais she didn’t want anything to beakfast, but as she had dyslexia my mother understood that my sister didn’t want only milk’s cream I don’t want nothing would be Eu não quero NATA,(the correct sentence is Eu não quero nada (ENGLISH- I don’t wan’t cream to I don’t want anything. After bothering a lot my mother I had to enter into the homely war to say that besides she didn’t want NATA (cream) she also didn’t to eat anything. So mummy went work at 7 AM stressed everyday

]]> by: BG http://www.omniglot.com/blog/2007/06/01/dyslecsia/#comment-49153 Sun, 03 Jun 2007 03:20:37 +0000 http://www.omniglot.com/blog/2007/06/01/dyslecsia/#comment-49153 Middle English had a perfectly good spelling system (so did Old English), similar to German today, but then things went wrong: French loan words (among others) that didn't conform to the Germanic orthography flooded the language; the Great Vowel shift occured, in which long vowels were raised (became closer) and diphthongized , i.e. long i [i:] > [aɪ], long a [a:] > [eɪ]; and certain sounds stopped being pronounced, i.e. knight [knɪxt] > [naɪt]. This is how I understand it, but I am not a (trained/professional) linguist. Middle English had a perfectly good spelling system (so did Old English), similar to German today, but then things went wrong: French loan words (among others) that didn’t conform to the Germanic orthography flooded the language; the Great Vowel shift occured, in which long vowels were raised (became closer) and diphthongized , i.e. long i [i:] > [aɪ], long a [a:] > [eɪ]; and certain sounds stopped being pronounced, i.e. knight [knɪxt] > [naɪt]. This is how I understand it, but I am not a (trained/professional) linguist.

]]> by: Minstrel Ayreon http://www.omniglot.com/blog/2007/06/01/dyslecsia/#comment-49086 Sat, 02 Jun 2007 15:34:58 +0000 http://www.omniglot.com/blog/2007/06/01/dyslecsia/#comment-49086 Gah! I just reread what I wrote, and I should've said, "I doubt there was MUCH 'intention' at all." Sheesh...and that just goes to show you that "native speaker" does not mean "perfect." Gah! I just reread what I wrote, and I should’ve said, “I doubt there was MUCH ‘intention’ at all.” Sheesh…and that just goes to show you that “native speaker” does not mean “perfect.”

]]> by: Simon http://www.omniglot.com/blog/2007/06/01/dyslecsia/#comment-49067 Sat, 02 Jun 2007 10:43:17 +0000 http://www.omniglot.com/blog/2007/06/01/dyslecsia/#comment-49067 TJ - dyslexia, which comes from the Greek for 'difficulty with words', and can involve difficulties with spelling, reading, dates and organisation of thoughts. <a href="http://www.bdadyslexia.org.uk/whatisdyslexia.html" rel="nofollow">More details</a> TJ - dyslexia, which comes from the Greek for ‘difficulty with words’, and can involve difficulties with spelling, reading, dates and organisation of thoughts.

More details

]]> by: TJ http://www.omniglot.com/blog/2007/06/01/dyslecsia/#comment-49066 Sat, 02 Jun 2007 09:26:12 +0000 http://www.omniglot.com/blog/2007/06/01/dyslecsia/#comment-49066 I wonder, is Dyslexia related as well to speech, way of writing, speed of writing ...etc? or is it only related to spelling troubles? I wonder, is Dyslexia related as well to speech, way of writing, speed of writing …etc? or is it only related to spelling troubles?

]]> by: Minstrel Ayreon http://www.omniglot.com/blog/2007/06/01/dyslecsia/#comment-49051 Sat, 02 Jun 2007 05:42:27 +0000 http://www.omniglot.com/blog/2007/06/01/dyslecsia/#comment-49051 James--Sadly, I doubt there was little "intention" at all involved in the formation of English spelling. Which is the crux of the problem. ;) James–Sadly, I doubt there was little “intention” at all involved in the formation of English spelling. Which is the crux of the problem. ;)

]]> by: Polly http://www.omniglot.com/blog/2007/06/01/dyslecsia/#comment-49033 Sat, 02 Jun 2007 00:48:43 +0000 http://www.omniglot.com/blog/2007/06/01/dyslecsia/#comment-49033 It adds to the "mystique" It adds to the “mystique”

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