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To: Grainne who wrote (100202)	4/2/2005 2:50:17 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I am one of the world's worst spellers- since I think of words by the way they sound, my first attempt to write a post is often entirely phonetic, and then I have to reread the post and catch my errors. I have terrible trouble with homophones- even simple ones like pair and pare and pear- because my brain just files them all in the same space for quick writing, and it isn't tell I go back and edit that I see what unusual choices my quick pick brain has made. It has made me very sympathetic to other people who have the same problem. I have students who are CLEARLY auditory, in terms of writing, but they've never have anyone tell them why they do what they do- and they've just gone through life thinking they were stupid. When you explain to them that it's just a matter of how their brains are processing information, you can really get them on track for learning how to edit to corral the problem. Brains. They are such fascinating equipment to own, and yet most people don't even try to construct their own schematic for the way their brains operate.