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Woods wrote:The evidence that you are asking for is will also always be loose one. Let's try actually looking for relevant studies and statistics rather than endless speculating.
Woods wrote:If I make a hundred studies in fifty counties involving thousands of people[.]
Woods wrote:If I have the chance, I would like to teach a dyslexic person to spell better than a native with a doctor's degree in literature and show you why I take it badly when one calls believing in people's abilities ableist.
linguoboy wrote:Woods wrote:The evidence that you are asking for is will also always be loose one. Let's try actually looking for relevant studies and statistics rather than endless speculating.
Fixed that for you.
linguoboy wrote:Woods wrote:If I have the chance, I would like to teach a dyslexic person to spell better than a native with a doctor's degree in literature and show you why I take it badly when one calls believing in people's abilities ableist.
You really seem to have a problem with the concept that anyone could know more about a topic than you think you do.
linguoboy wrote:One of my nephews is dyslexic. His mother (my sister) is a teacher specialising in early childhood education. If she couldn't succeed inteaching him "to spell better than a native with a doctor's degree in literature"[*], what makes you think you could? Or, right: arrogance.
Woods wrote:Witty. I wasn't quite aware that you cannot refer to adjectives with "one" - thank you!
Woods wrote:linguoboy wrote:One of my nephews is dyslexic. His mother (my sister) is a teacher specialising in early childhood education. If she couldn't succeed inteaching him "to spell better than a native with a doctor's degree in literature"[*], what makes you think you could? Or, right: arrogance.
I haven't said I can - just that I would like to try and think chances might be higher than it is generally believed. I cannot say I'll succeed until I've tried.
Johanna wrote:This person tries to tell us Swedes that we should really be Danes.
Danish incidentally keeps the original spelling of loan words more often than Swedish does.
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