Re: Propper Englesh

Rosemary <mentally_subnormal@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Rowland McDonnell wrote:
Rosemary wrote:

<snip>

It's red and green that's the most common confusion area, and even
then, with most people it's just certain shades they have difficulty
with.

Being red-green colour blind like my dad is hell on Earth when you
have to read resistor colour codes - he just plain can't do it
reliably.

One of my uncles has the red-green type of colourblindness. He's also got
about 10 dioptres of myopia, his wife is blind in one eye and their
daughter has a really bad squint.Of his two sisters, one has 13 dioptres
of myopia and the other has high myopia and in also blind in one eye. I
don't think that my family is particularly lucky when it comes to vision,
but nobody has nearly enough problems to be classed as blind. In fact, I
don't know anyone in my family on either side who doesn't have some kind
of vision problem.

I think anyone who thinks the've got perfect sight has never visited an
optician :-)

My dad was tested to have near-enough perfect vision by at least one
optician when he was in his 20s - well, aside from the colour blindness,
that is. The optics were nigh on perfect, it's just that he's got dodgy
retinas.

He started to use specs for close up work in his 50s, IIRC. (That was
when he got worried because he found that his resting pulse rate had
gone up ~10bpm to ~55bpm - it's been measured at less than 30bpm with
him quite unfussed and wide awake.

Yes he does have an unusually large heart - he got lucky with the genes
and did a lot of serious swimming for some decades when he was young.
Me? My body's more like my mother's, right down to the creaky joints,
damnit. On the other hand, they're no creakier now I'm 41 than they
were when I was 16, so the arthritis that'll clobber me one day probably
hasn't started biting yet.)

I'll probably need glasses myself some time in the next decade.

<snip>

And why oh why oh why oh why does `weird' have
the `ei' the wrong way round, eh? Mind you, I spotted that `i before
e except after c' didn't work reliably when I was first introduced to
the rhyme

That rule only works for ee sounds (and even then, I don't think it's
100%). I can tell you didn't do enough phonics at school. :-)

If that point had ever been made to me, I'd've understood it perfectly
well without having to mess about with any idiocy like phonics.

All I got was the straight spelling rule: `i before e except after c'
which, it was alleged, applied to all instances of ie and ei. And like
I said, I spotted that the claim was nonsense at the time.

That was one of the many occasions on which I learnt not to pay too much
attention to the claims of alleged experts. I've never been inclined to
pay much attention to alleged authority.

Anyway, weird's simple. It's we as in... well, we, and ird as in jird, or
third.

No, it's write the word, notice I've got it wrong (again) and try to
remember that it's an exception next time *before* I type the keys or
scribble the letters.

Rowland.

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