[stylist] DBG (chapter 4)

[helene ryles]

Hi Laura,
yes Fiona (the 3ft 7 lady) does make an apearance but you have to wait
several chapters before she comes into it again, since the first
chapter happened 8 years after the second one, so that time has to
elapse before we get to meet Fiona again.

Your spot on about oralism. I feel my education has suffered due to
the lack of more visual clues but since I was just HOH nobody
considered signing as neccessary. It's the same when blind kids have
some useful sight. Braille goes out of the window and they are
expected to use large print and not encouraged to use a cane.
I used a cane when I still had low vision and found it very useful.
Another strange thing is that while low vision people are discouraged
from using canes, people seem ok about them using a guide dog. I never
quite understood that.
If you need a guide dog your vision is automatically bad enough to use a cane.

Helene

On 07/09/2009, Barbara Hammel <poetlori8 at msn.com> wrote:
> You'd probably still use eyes unless she's a cyclops.
> Even if one doesn't work, it's still there.
> Barbara
>
> If wisdom's ways you wisely seek, five things observe with care:  of whom
> you speak, to whom you speak, and how and when and where.
>
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> From: "helene ryles" <dreamavdb at googlemail.com>
> Sent: Monday, September 07, 2009 3:41 PM
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> Subject: Re: [stylist] DBG (chapter 4)
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>> Hi Laura,
>> By a period, do you mean full stop?
>> I don't think lack of punctuation is a british thing, just that it
>> isn't really my strong point and neither is spelling but my spell
>> check picks out most of the misspelt words unless they have
>> alternative meanings. Which is probably why it didn't pick out
>> 'lounge' as that's also a word.
>>
>> Yes, Nazdonia is mostly desert lanscape.
>>
>> Liza has one working eye. The other had a detached retina so she is
>> completely blind in that eye. Would I use eyes or eye in this case?
>>
>> Ok, I'll use rescue then.
>>
>> Thanks for going over it for me.
>>
>> Helene
>>
>> On 07/09/2009, LoriStay at aol.com <LoriStay at aol.com> wrote:
>>> If you say four a.m. (periods after each letter here), you don't need to
>>> mention it's morning, since a.m. means morning.   In this case, I'd leave
>>> the
>>> a.m. out and let the rest of the sentence define it.
>>>
>>> As the train arrived Stormy tried to make a lounge
>>> You probably mean a lunge   (l u n g e, rather than l o u n g e)
>>>
>>>  So I had to kidnap you
>>> instead...
>>> I'd probably say rescue rather than kidnap.   Kidnap has rather a bad
>>> connotation.   We've had a lot of children kidnapped in the states
>>> recently,
>>> and
>>> then found again.   Their kidnappers had sexually molested them.     Yes,
>>> rescue is definitely the word I'd use.
>>>
>>> question:   is this a desert environment?   That's the only place I'd
>>> expect to see trains and camels (as I have in the mid-east)
>>>  This was
>>> something I wasn't use to.
>>> the word should be used (u s e d) rather than use (u s e)
>>>
>>>  She would smile
>>> brightly for me but the smile hardly ever reached her eye.
>>> Do you mean eyes?   Or no, I guess she only has one, but the expression
>>> around the eyes has to do with facial muscles.   In fact, expressions are
>>> more
>>> easily seen around the mouth.
>>>
>>> Today she seemed more anxious then usual. Something was definitely
>>> bothering her.
>>> The word is than (t h a n)
>>>
>>> I note you consistently leave out the punctuation at the end of the
>>> quotes.
>>>   I've read a lot of books written in Brittain, and that isn't something
>>> done.   I know I said I wouldn't mention it again, but I'm just wondering
>>> why
>>> you do it that way.
>>> Lori
>>>
>>> In a message dated 9/7/09 3:43:29 PM, dreamavdb at googlemail.com writes:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Liza got me out
>>>> of bed at about four am every morning
>>>>
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