A dyslexic who failed English in Highschool
From the "Ohhhhhhh, If-you-want-it-to-be-possessive, it's-just-I-T-S, but-if-it's-supposed-to-be-a-contraction, than-it's-I-T-apostrophe-S. Scalawag!" Department
From the Commonly Confused Words Test
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You scored 80% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 87% Advanced, and 61% Expert!
You have an extremely good understanding of beginner, intermediate, and advanced level commonly confused English words, getting at least 75% of each of these three levels’ questions correct. This is an exceptional score. Remember, these are commonly confused English words, which means most people don’t use them properly. You got an extremely respectable score.
More humbling: (Yes, humbling)
- Test statistics:
- 100% had lower Beginner scores.
- 100% had lower Intermediate scores.
- 100% had lower Advanced scores.
- 100% had lower Expert scores.
- With respect to Beginner, users aged 55 to 59 scored highest.
- With respect to Intermediate, users aged 55 to 59 scored highest.
- With respect to Advanced, users aged 55 to 59 scored highest.
- With respect to Expert, users aged 55 to 59 scored highest.
- Compared to users who took the test and are and in your age group:
I hope this is because so few in my age group took the test.
Cause I’m just a geeky part-time webblog hack.
I’m not surprised at all that you did well. You and my brother share this in common. In school, you had problems with grammar and writing, however due to your interests, you read voraciously. More than anything else, reading improves grammar.You’ve read so much that you can easily spot bad usage. Furthermore, you blog. This also improves and hones your writing skills.
Comment by JMay — March 4, 2005 @ 12:30:59 PM
Dyslexics untie!
Comment by The Oiginal Stinkin Rick — March 4, 2005 @ 5:41:27 PM
Indeed, Rick
You still can’t spell ORIGINAL.
Tee Hee (Cookies suck)
Comment by Jeremy — March 4, 2005 @ 5:50:59 PM
JMay has a point Jer.
A dyslexic has learning disabilities that keep them from accomplishing what you did. Physics and Astronomy degrees do not come to those with such disabilities.
High School didn’t get your attention and with barely cracking a book, you passed through except for 12th grade English (they made you crack a book and you made it).
A dyslexic works extremely hard and long to get a C. Once you found something interesting, you got A’s. I still tell stories about your college Journalism papers.
I found your college honors society certificate while cleaning the basement.
Comment by Dad — March 4, 2005 @ 7:21:05 PM
College Papers: You mean one of my first rants on how my diabolical father taught me how to drive (in a stick-shift no less)?
(I think I got an A for the sheer horor and anger which was communicated in that essay, with just sympathy points alone)
Dad, I guess my point of this was that, I don’t remember getting any formal (or informal) grammar training. (Those precious 7th and 8th grade years were devoid of all things grammar) – so to score so high, means (like Jennifer tacitly suggested) was due to other influences like reading, and those remedial composition cources in Community College. (Though I didn’t learn grammar in college either)
Comment by Jeremy — March 4, 2005 @ 9:17:34 PM
Some of your generation was considering Ebonics as a second language. Teachers were obviously concerned that if they taught English grammar, they would have to give equal time to all languages so why bother.
I know your teachers from my generation had grammar thumped into their heads in Junior High.
Comment by Dad — March 4, 2005 @ 9:29:58 PM
Jeremy! Look Out!!!
They don’t know what war to fight in!!!
Get the Corsairs in the air, Pappy!!
Comment by The O'ginal Stinkin' Rick — March 5, 2005 @ 3:53:14 PM
Hey Maynard,
Can you get an ID on those?
One looks like an A-10 to me.
Comment by Jeremy — March 5, 2005 @ 7:28:59 PM
What about the paper that addressed treating all ideas with equal weight? The guts it took to inform a liberal teacher that using only the best ideas will move a civilization forward. Allowing bad ideas for the sake of improving someone’s self esteem weakens the final outcome. Didn’t you get a good grade on that one?
Comment by Dad — March 6, 2005 @ 8:25:55 PM
Dad,
I barely remember that one.
I got good grades on all my papers (cause I was being graded on the style of the essay, not really the content.)
My favorite was my “Failure of Feminism” research paper in my Comp 102 class.
*sighs* I was such an extremist back then.
Comment by Jeremy — March 6, 2005 @ 8:37:32 PM
left pic, clockwise from top:
P-38, A-10, P-47, F-16
The P-47 is a guess, based on the pics here. The others were easy.
Thanks for the pics, SR. I knew I wasn’t crazy when I saw those planes fly by.
Comment by Maynard — March 10, 2005 @ 4:59:19 PM