My cat ran away

[gynarchy]

Capitalization rules, courtesy of The Blue Book.

[sasmi]

Oh i see now  but capitalization which i read on net mean it can be seen in different way in which country your from, I my self from Britain but can we please drop this about my problem, With my punctuation and capitalization ok so i have a problem i have for many years now and am try to get better but i thought i could talk on here . I guess i can't 

[Zazazu]

Not if you're going to get touchy about it, no. Personally, I have a hard time buying your explanation that dyslexia is preventing you from using proper punctuation and any capitalization. Last I knew, it didn't prevent one from hitting the shift key. Yes, I know quite a few people with dyslexia.

While there are very few rules of capitalization that vary from country to country, beginning a sentence with a capitalized word is universal.

[sasmi]

Yeah Zazazu your right. It not the dyslexia stop me from using punctuation. It just I got to take my time and read it. I got to go over it a few times and write more slowly. ( It doesn't help that I forget how to spell some words) Sorry for be to touchy about it.

This is just a forum after all  it not like I know anyone here for real or I would be scared.

Sorry been such a prat

[Avalikia]

Well, you also have to keep in mind that MATY is the tough neighborhood of the Sims Forum world.  If you haven't been poked, laughed at, and insulted you haven't been here for very long or you haven't been trying very hard.  But here's a tip:  The best defense is a good offense*.

* Offense is meant in all senses of the word.

[sasmi]

Well, you also have to keep in mind that MATY is the tough neighborhood of the Sims Forum world.  If you haven't been poked, laughed at, and insulted you haven't been here for very long or you haven't been trying very hard.  But here's a tip:  The best defense is a good offense*.

* Offense is meant in all senses of the word.

yeah i just found out it is tough place to be , guess i got take it with a pinch of salt o_0

[witch]

You'll take it with a poking stick if you don't start sorting that punctuation out.

I thought you wrote like an eight year old at first, now I know you're at University, you'll have to pull your writing socks up.

[Process Denied]

Chester Gieke lost his pet when it was attacked by a stray.  It was really annoying because the dog had a good relationship with all four Sims on the lot.  He also had only one more trick to learn and was on the top of his career.  He also had a good personality--it totally sucked.  After waiting for a long time for Star to return, I gave up and deleted him ,then summoned him, then added him to the family.  It made him stay on the lot but he can't get a job.  I just let him be a normal dog, at least he is back.  I wish I knew to try the move out thing and adopt him--that would of been a lot better.

[cwykes]

Personally, I have a hard time buying your explanation that dyslexia is preventing you from using proper punctuation and any capitalization. Last I knew, it didn't prevent one from hitting the shift key. Yes, I know quite a few people with dyslexia.

Dyslexia is a broad church and some people do have a problem working out how to divide their thoughts into sentences.  My daughter is one of them.  She's at Uni in the UK now, heading for a good degree, and she still runs everything into one unpunctuated mess.  My experience is that UK teachers either don't know how to do it right themselves, aren't allowed to correct spelling and grammar or have given up trying or caring. I used to get "shut up you neurotic woman" looks when I'd raise her problems with teachers.  It's nice for me that we do care on MATY!

So Sasmi - you're not alone, but do try if you're going to post here or just lurk!  Divide your thoughts into short sentences and run a spell check over it.

[simsfreq]

Personally, I have a hard time buying your explanation that dyslexia is preventing you from using proper punctuation and any capitalization. Last I knew, it didn't prevent one from hitting the shift key. Yes, I know quite a few people with dyslexia.

Dyslexia is a broad church and some people do have a problem working out how to divide their thoughts into sentences.  My daughter is one of them.  She's at Uni in the UK now, heading for a good degree, and she still runs everything into one unpunctuated mess.  My experience is that UK teachers either don't know how to do it right themselves, aren't allowed to correct spelling and grammar or have given up trying or caring. I used to get "shut up you neurotic woman" looks when I'd raise her problems with teachers.  It's nice for me that we do care on MATY!

So Sasmi - you're not alone, but do try if you're going to post here or just lurk!  Divide your thoughts into short sentences and run a spell check over it.

Same for my OH. His dyslexia is quite bad and although most of what he writes is decipherable, his speech is affected too (he couldn't even speak properly until he was 5) and he continually confuses words without even realising he's doing it. He keeps telling me long-term relationships never work when he means long-distance. LOL. "Happibly" is another favourite word. I'm quite obsessed with grammar and spelling too so it took a bit of getting used to but now I just think it's quite sweet and part of his individuality. He does suffer horribly from low self-esteem about it though, especially from school which means me as the straight-A with little effort student often gets accused of being "much cleverer" than him. My blonde moments have to make up for that!

[maxon]

Dyslexia is a broad church and some people do have a problem working out how to divide their thoughts into sentences.  My daughter is one of them.  She's at Uni in the UK now, heading for a good degree, and she still runs everything into one unpunctuated mess.  My experience is that UK teachers either don't know how to do it right themselves, aren't allowed to correct spelling and grammar or have given up trying or caring. I used to get "shut up you neurotic woman" looks when I'd raise her problems with teachers.  It's nice for me that we do care on MATY!

Well, I can't speak for other universities but I can tell you that at the UK university where I work, spelling, grammar and punctuation are important and are taken into account in assessment (and, yes, that means marks are knocked off) and are discussed in feedback.  However, I (and my colleagues) am aware that people struggle with these things and I, at least, try to avoid the "you are at this crap" approach which really doesn't seem to help.  I don't know if this is true at other universities but students with problems here are assessed and supplied with help in the form of a support tutor.  I think this tends to cause a conflict of interest in the area of student's language use and skills.  If I know a student has problems and has a support worker, I tend to avoid giving too much input into how a student handles language and advise them to talk to their support tutor about any issues I have with their writing.  I don't want to say anything that will foul up the support tutor's tactics.  So maybe that does come across as backing off from the problem.  My reasoning is that I am not qualified to help people with recognised cognitive problems: I'm an (nearly) academic, not a support worker.  I deal in concepts and ideas and although language is the medium through which we talk to each other about those things, someone having a disability in that area doesn't come under my professional purview.  It's a grey area, for me at least. 

I think attitudes at UK universities are also slightly unexpected to the outsider which adds to the confusion.  Universities here are about research first and foremost (that's what we get the money for and what we are appointed for - when I finally finish my PhD (submission date July this year, oh God), it is my research profile that will get me a job not my teaching skills, despite the fact I am a qualified teacher with over 20 years experience - this is fairly irrelevant) and still hold fast to the notion of universities are research institutions which undergraduates can attend and learn a great deal from being in that environment.  You might make the distinction by saying: (undergrad) students come to university to learn rather than universities offer an education.  It's a distinction most outsiders and, incidentally, most undergraduates don't understand.  The impetus to learn is pushed much more into the realm of the student's initiative rather than directed by the institution.  University in the UK is not an extension of school; it's something else, although, of course, universities do offer an education, in a sense, in the form of classes and assessment.

And finally, we're all aware (or should be at least) that dyslexia doesn't mean you're dumb.  I have plenty of PhD and post-doc friends who are dyslexic.  I get tired of people saying teachers are crap at **** - you can tell, can't you?

[cwykes]

Makes sense to me.  You are there to teach a subject at under-graduate level not to provide specialised learning support for grammar and spelling.   It's just harder for a bright student to show how well they grasp the subject when the lack of punctuation gets in the way of reader comprehension.  I've just found it frustrating that this has been true all through my daughter's education.  Subject teachers focus on the subject, english teachers focus on Eng Lit and the mechanistic requirements of GCSE, class teachers care about social interaction and learning support don't get involved for minor problems.  A bright kid with only one problem is 'normal'.   Maybe it was supposed to be my job, but I wasn't trained for it either.