BS: dysleximoron? (define!)

Subject: BS: dysleximoron? (define!)
From: Art Thieme
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 03:55 PM

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Art Thieme

Subject: RE: BS: dysleximoron? (define!)
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 04:00 PM

That's not furry.

G

Subject: RE: BS: dysleximoron? (define!)
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 05:23 PM

Simple!!

A bloody idiot who starts joke dearths about peoples dibasilities.

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: dysleximoron? (define!)
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 05:26 PM

Somebody who wears Levis in memory of The King.

G

Subject: RE: BS: dysleximoron? (define!)
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 05:27 PM

BTW, Art, I missed out LOL from that post, or should I say OLL.

Not D

Subject: RE: BS: dysleximoron? (define!)
From: GUEST,lox
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 05:59 PM

Yeah!

Don't dis Alexia alright!

(or dat Alexia either)

Subject: RE: BS: dysleximoron? (define!)
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 07:36 PM

Could be me!! How do you spell dislyx.....dyslix.....dizlix.......oh sod it!

Subject: RE: BS: dysleximoron? (define!)
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 09:30 PM

Hey thats exactly the same kind of daim bramage I have.
Thing is, other than having to make time consuming associations to use language, dyslexia is not so bad. It keeps me from doing public speaking. ITs the moron part that bugs me.

My autistic son is an honor student at and beyond his grade level yet he too has severe language complications. He still does not get my satire humor.

My younger son gets the whole psychic communication, satirical jokes and irony thing and has no language problems what so ever.

With the exeption of Helen Keller, what irks me are the people who market or make a big deal about their life condition as if they deserve extra consideration for any kind of handicap...like the artist who paints with his mouth because he has no hands. Big Deal.
We may not all be equal but we all have a life condition that presents the challenge of life itself.

Subject: RE: BS: dysleximoron? (define!)
From: Amos
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 09:31 PM

I think a dysleximoron is one who writes down stupid ideas incorrectly.


A

Subject: RE: BS: dysleximoron? (define!)
From: Emma B
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 09:36 PM

you may well be right Amos but, fortunately, a Mudcat 'Fatwa' has been pronounced on some of them now!

Subject: RE: BS: dysleximoron? (define!)
From: Bert
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 10:03 PM

Considering who started this thread it has to be something to do with 'puns', sorry 'nups'.

Subject: RE: BS: dysleximoron? (define!)
From: GUEST,Chicken Charlie
Date: 10 Apr 08 - 06:39 PM

You all know about the agnostic, dyslexic insomniac who stayed up all night wondering whether or not there is a dog.


So I'm walking down the street (while ago, this was) and I pass the music store, and there's a sign in the window:

                      Free Nelson Mandela

and I'm wondering, hey, if the Nelson is a good brand of mandela, why are they giving them away for free.

Now, THAT's a dysleximoron. I've waited all these years, but now I know.

CC

Subject: RE: BS: dysleximoron? (define!)
From: Art Thieme
Date: 10 Apr 08 - 07:22 PM

No malice or impuning of any disabilities were intended. Only just an extention of the oxymoronic threads; one that didn't work real well I guess.-- Take it however you will



Best to you all,
Art

Subject: RE: BS: dysleximoron? (define!)
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Apr 08 - 07:28 AM

Jeez Art, I hope that apology for possible political incorrectness was not on my account.
The meaning I failed to convey was simply we are all who we are and will be until we're not.

Subject: RE: BS: dysleximoron? (define!)
From: Michael
Date: 11 Apr 08 - 09:00 AM

Donuel

I think that is a wondeful philosophy:-
    'We are all who we are and will be until we're not.'
If more people followed that,a lot less people would get hassled.

Mike

Subject: RE: BS: dysleximoron? (define!)
From: gnu
Date: 11 Apr 08 - 10:31 AM

Giok : "Somebody who wears Levis in memory of The King."

hahahahahahahahahahahaaaa!!!!!!!!! That is priceless!

Subject: RE: BS: dysleximoron? (define!)
From: Amos
Date: 11 Apr 08 - 03:26 PM

AP) Dyslexia affects different parts of children's brains depending on whether they are raised reading English or Chinese. That finding, reported in Monday's online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, means that therapists may need to seek different methods of assisting dyslexic children from different cultures.

"This finding was very surprising to us. We had not ever thought that dyslexics' brains are different for children who read in English and Chinese," said lead author Li-Hai Tan, a professor of linguistics and brain and cognitive sciences at the University of Hong Kong. "Our finding yields neurobiological clues to the cause of dyslexia."

Millions of children worldwide are affected by dyslexia, a language-based learning disability that can include problems in reading, spelling, writing and pronouncing words. The International Dyslexia Association says there is no consensus on the exact number because not all children are screened, but estimates range from 8 percent to 15 percent of students.

Reading an alphabetic language like English requires different skills than reading Chinese, which relies less on sound representation, instead using symbols to represent words.

Past studies have suggested that the brain may use different networks of neurons in different languages, but none has suggested a difference in the structural parts of the brain involved, Tan explained.

Tan's research group studied the brains of students raised reading Chinese, using functional magnetic resonance imaging. They then compared those findings with similar studies of the brains of students raised reading English.

Guinevere F. Eden, director of the Center for the Study of Learning at Georgetown University in Washington, said the process of becoming a skilled reader changes the brain.

"Becoming a reader is a fairly dramatic process for the brain," explained Eden, who was not part of Tan's research team on this paper.

For children, learning to read is culturally important but is not really natural, Eden said, so when the brain orients toward a different writing system it copes with it differently.

For example, English-speaking children learn the sounds of letters and how to combine them into words, while Chinese youngsters memorize hundreds of symbols which represent words.

"The implication here is that when we see a reading disability, we see it in different parts of the brain depending on the writing system that the child is born into," Eden said.

That means, "we cannot just assume that any dyslexic child is going to be helped by the same kind of intervention," she said in a telephone interview.

Tan said the new findings suggest that treating Chinese speakers with dyslexia may use working memory tasks and tests relating to sensor-motor skills, while current treatments of English dyslexia focus on letter-sound conversions and sound awareness.

He said the underlying cause of brain structure abnormalities in dyslexia is currently unknown.

(CBS News)

Subject: RE: BS: dysleximoron? (define!)
From: Mr Red
Date: 12 Apr 08 - 12:23 PM

Now - how do you e-mail the Dyslexia Society?

There is one in Bath UK - you try typing http://www.dyslexiaaction.org.uk

at least the address is benign (relatively)
14 Queen Square
Bath

well you wouldn't locate it in "Nempnett Thrubwell" (Adge Cutler song about the place) or Wolvishardy (pronounced Wolsey)- would you?