[stylist] DBG (chapter 4)

[helene ryles]

Hi Barbara,
What's cyclops mean. I'll use eyes then.

Helene

On 07/09/2009, helene ryles <dreamavdb at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> From: "helene ryles" <dreamavdb at googlemail.com>
>> Sent: Monday, September 07, 2009 3:41 PM
>> To: "Writer's Division Mailing List" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
>> Subject: Re: [stylist] DBG (chapter 4)
>>
>>> 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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