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KEVIN! I am surprised at you! Lonesome El and you have made a rather surprising eror. There is no correlation between literacy and ability to spell. I have a learning disability - similer to dislexia, but the inverce of the same, I have troble sequencing, and as such, where Dislexics have troble with language and often make good mathimaticians, as they make language problems into math problems as a way of mentally accomodating their disability, people with my disability make language problems out of math problems - can't count but can read and speak like hell.
People with disabilities such as mine are often remarkabley good readers with huge reading comprehension scores, mine have been in the high nineties since I learned to read. On the other hand, I will never be able to spell well, as a fact of my morphology. I met six others with my disability in law school, (the third best law school in the US).
One has to be careful not to judge someone by their spelling in the same way one should not judge by regional accents. My first year of law school, I had never accepted accomodations for my disability. However, I was consistantly scoring the lowest marks in a system where there was an inforced grade curve. There had to be a top and bottom among scholars who came from the top of the best schools in the world. At the end of my first year I accepted, as an accomodation, the right to take my exams on computors with spell check, and my marks went up to the upper rainge becomming a teaching assistant in Constitutional law and race and the law.
JOE! As you know, I am one of those who think you are doing a GREAT job, - but if you are bothered by poor spelling, isn't there some way to create a way of posting that includes SPELL CHECK!!!! (short of adding a bunch of steps on our lazy ass parts!) ;-)
All the best
Laryr... I mean Alrry, grrrrr... LAYRR aw shucks, you know who I mean.... (Larry)