Definition of Border

[KerriS]

I only wanted to define border, and look, we have an international discussion of the merits of various educational systems going on here! What a riot! Hope I didn't raise a hornet's nest about the use of English!

Sorry Jean
I really didn't want to steer your thread in a direction you didn't want it to go.. I think I just got a little carried away, because I just liked the theme. Neither did I want to stir up a hornets nest. I really liked the discussion so far, and I truly didn't want to offend or criticize anyone. If someone felt that, I apologize.

have a nice evening

[buckeyequilter]

We all fall short sometimes in the grammer, spelling, punctuation etc., at least I do. There are just some "glaring" mistakes that sometimes makes the sentence difficult to read/understand. I have a niece on Facebook and I quit reading her posts because it evidently took so much longer to type - to instead of 2 or for instead of 4. It would take me five minutes to decipher her posts.

Here's how it would go *lol*:

2nite I'm having steak 4 dinner cuz I 4got 2 pick up chicken.

[Divine Daisy]

I am back from the hospital and popped on to see if I am banned......I'm not.....yay!! Kerri ty for the compliment re my dyslexia, I am touched and quite proud that you didnt know and that it is not too obvious.

All my life I have had to work hard every day. At school until I was 10 I was labelled stupid and unteachable. I didnt know why I couldnt read, I just could not see what everyone else could. Then my step father came along, he was a teacher, newly trained as a mature student and he thought that maybe I just wasnt seeing the words. So gave me a reading book and sure enough I couldnt read it to him. Then he read another to me..... much harder, and then asked me to read it back to him which I did almost word perfect. He realised I wasn't actually reading it but had memorised it after hearing it just once. He did some other tests and decided that I wasn't stupid at all and on top of that had a remarkable memory.

He started to work with me using methods he made up as he learned how I learned, he learned to see what I saw.......he actually asked me what I saw on a page which no one had ever done, they had only yelled at me to see what they saw. He taught me patterns in words, those I couldn't get he just asked me to remember them. Within a year I was reading well, another year my reading age was above average. I still use the methods he taught me although to be honest I do it automatically so that usually I don't even know that I am doing it. Dont ask me for directions to a place though because it will be totally screwed up. I depend heavily on Mr Daisy when designing a quilt pattern or making a new applique. If i get all confused I call for him, tell him I need 'this' the other way round......something I simply cannot do. I cannot manage just to turn something around or reverse it. He comes into the sewing room and 'flips' and marks with pen. Always red for left and blue for right. Then I am ok.

I went to univercity, did a law degree and earned a living all thanks to my Step Father. Also thanks to my secretary for 25 years. Jean used to colourcode my notes for court so I could find things. My briefs were always a rainbow of coloured paper which facinated other lawyers. She worked out the method and stuck to it for all those years.

I will always be grateful to these two people

When I realised my eldest daughter had the same problem, the first thing I said to her was....you are not stupid!! She learned in a simular way to me and while the school was much better than they were in my day, her Granda did the same for her as he did for me. Such a special man. Sadly he died before she graduated from uni, but she dedicated her degree in Geotechnic Engineering to him.

Nowadays, computors and spell checks make life easier but once your brain is trained to remember, with my type of dyslexia it only occasionally forgets. ~(usually in the middle of a star block in my case lol)

[toggpine]

I really don't think any of us meant to offend, just vent some frustrations.
A little red pencil never hurt anyone. It just means we are less perfect than we think!

So, I certainly ain't gonna jump all over someone's post here 'cuz there spelling things wrong or used the wrong homophone!
(I think I should have offended just about everybody with that sentence!)

Selvedge always looks wrong to me.
I also confess that I have a dictionary next to the computer and the Webster's site bookmarked. I am that much of a word nerd.

Love the lay/lie story! That could be very helpful in the not too distant future!

Cathy

[toggpine]

Wow Daisy!

That is very impressive! What a phenomenal man! It's too bad that not everyone is given that kind of a dedicated parent or teacher.
Stewart is such a sweet guy too!
You are a very lucky lady!

I have been color-coding the papers for my volunteer group. It makes it much easier to know that we are all on the same project just by scanning the table. Of course, working with them is sometimes like high school anyway!

[Jean Sewing Machine]

I am back from the hospital and popped on to see if I am banned......I'm not.....yay!! Kerri ty for the compliment re my dyslexia, I am touched and quite proud that you didnt know and that it is not too obvious.

All my life I have had to work hard every day. At school until I was 10 I was labelled stupid and unteachable. I didnt know why I couldnt read, I just could not see what everyone else could. Then my step father came along, he was a teacher, newly trained as a mature student and he thought that maybe I just wasnt seeing the words. So gave me a reading book and sure enough I couldnt read it to him. Then he read another to me..... much harder, and then asked me to read it back to him which I did almost word perfect. He realised I wasn't actually reading it but had memorised it after hearing it just once. He did some other tests and decided that I wasn't stupid at all and on top of that had a remarkable memory.

He started to work with me using methods he made up as he learned how I learned, he learned to see what I saw.......he actually asked me what I saw on a page which no one had ever done, they had only yelled at me to see what they saw. He taught me patterns in words, those I couldn't get he just asked me to remember them. Within a year I was reading well, another year my reading age was above average. I still use the methods he taught me although to be honest I do it automatically so that usually I don't even know that I am doing it. Dont ask me for directions to a place though because it will be totally screwed up. I depend heavily on Mr Daisy when designing a quilt pattern or making a new applique. If i get all confused I call for him, tell him I need 'this' the other way round......something I simply cannot do. I cannot manage just to turn something around or reverse it. He comes into the sewing room and 'flips' and marks with pen. Always red for left and blue for right. Then I am ok.

I went to univercity, did a law degree and earned a living all thanks to my Step Father. Also thanks to my secretary for 25 years. Jean used to colourcode my notes for court so I could find things. My briefs were always a rainbow of coloured paper which facinated other lawyers. She worked out the method and stuck to it for all those years.

I will always be grateful to these two people

When I realised my eldest daughter had the same problem, the first thing I said to her was....you are not stupid!! She learned in a simular way to me and while the school was much better than they were in my day, her Granda did the same for her as he did for me. Such a special man. Sadly he died before she graduated from uni, but she dedicated her degree in Geotechnic Engineering to him.

Nowadays, computors and spell checks make life easier but once your brain is trained to remember, with my type of dyslexia it only occasionally forgets. ~(usually in the middle of a star block in my case lol)

All teachers should remember this, everyone learns differently! My son was also dyslexic, we had many things that we tried to help him. He learns by doing, not by reading. Got his university degree and is a computer guy and woodworker and Mr. Fix-It in a minute. And a wonderful dad!

[Monique]

In speaking what really annoys me is "UM". Every second word is um. I don't know um if y'all um know what I mean!!

[K. McEuen]

We all fall short sometimes in the grammer, spelling, punctuation etc., at least I do. There are just some "glaring" mistakes that sometimes makes the sentence difficult to read/understand. I have a niece on Facebook and I quit reading her posts because it evidently took so much longer to type - to instead of 2 or for instead of 4. It would take me five minutes to decipher her posts.

Here's how it would go *lol*:

2nite I'm having steak 4 dinner cuz I 4got 2 pick up chicken.

Too many people use "text-type" in their everyday written communications. I was very surprised to find that teachers aren't even correcting it in school. I send texts and I still spell out every word. I just can't bring myself to use ur and l8r, etc.

[Monique]

Karen, took me a few seconds to figure out what l8r was.

[Monique]

I just wanted to add that I taught my boys phonetics. They were taught at school to just spell as it sounded. I would not allow that as they got older. They would sound out words and if they did not know how to spell a word, there was the dictionary. I was good at spelling when I was younger (1 or 2 years ago) and we used to have spelling bees.

That is my two cents worth.