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Thread #56400   Message #886319
Posted By: CarolC
09-Feb-03 - 05:08 PM
Thread Name: BS: Colin Powell finds the 'Smoking Gun'
Subject: RE: BS: Colin Powell finds the 'Smoking Gun'
Hey Dan. No misunderstanding on my part. The issue for people with dyslexia and proofreading, is that for someone with dyslexia (unlike someone without dyslexia), proofreading can become so time prohibitive that it would become impossible to post at all. Kind of like asking someone who can't walk to try to get around without a wheelchair. Very cumbersome and time consuming.

Personally, I can't see the harm in asking someone who has made a mistake such as the one about patriot missles vs tomahawk missles which one they meant, and just go on from there.

As to your point about brevity, I'm partial to brevity myself, but Bobert is hardly the most long-winded poster to this forum. I'd hate for anyone to stop posting just because I don't like the way they write. Although I do appreciate it when people break up their posts into short paragraphs because of one of my learning disabilities (ADHD) which makes it difficult to distinguish individual characters in a field with a lot of visual stimuli.

Anyway, I can understand where you're coming from. But I think an understanding of the problems that people with learning disabilities face is a good thing when discussing these kinds of situations.