OT: what's with the 'i'?

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 02/02/2013 08:38 PM, Ian Malone wrote:
> On 3 February 2013 01:13, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
>> On 02/02/2013 05:04 AM, Frank Murphy wrote:
>>> On Sat, 02 Feb 2013 02:02:18 -0800
>>> Joe Zeff <joe at zeff.us> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 02/02/2013 01:51 AM, Craig White wrote:
>>>>> There's your challenge... show me that you're not just making a
>>>>> vacuous point.
>>>> You're the one asserting, without evidence or any attempt at proof
>>>> that my point is vacuous.  It's not up to me to refute your
>>>> baseless claim it's up to you to establish it.
>>> I,m dyslexic, also have brain problems.
>>
>> And fortunately for this dyslexic, in 7th grade English we REALLY learned
>> grammer.  We did sentence grammer trees; something that none of my children
>> ever benefited from.  Actually that visualization of grammer can make all
>> the difference to a dyslexic (read "The Gift of Dyslexia" by Ron Burns); we
>> think visually and have to translate back and forth to linear language.
> Dyslexia is quite a specific thing that shouldn't prevent anyone from
> further learning (unfortunately it does due to the integral part
> reading plays in early education and, until fairly recently, poor
> recognition). Proust and the Squid is another interesting book that
> touches on this topic, and learning written English in general.
>
> There was another post somewhere complaining about "Eats, Shoots and
> Leaves" which seems to have missed that it's meant to be funny (the
> clue is in the title).

Read it.  Loved it.