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[olli]

Yeah, and it's getting boring now.

[PeeWee]

"In the modern world, great leaders used words... words like 'RACIST'..."

the original Generals intro, you know...

[olli]

Look, all Alias was saying was that Pheonix's english is bad, which is ironic because he lives in England. There was no racism.

Pheonix really couldn't give a rat's ass about his spelling but tbh Phoenix just ignore it and don't be so aggresive.

Alias, there was no need to say that stupid comment to set him off. It was uncalled for.

[Alias]

I expect an Englishman of a good 23 years to be able to talk, understand and write proper English. It's something to expect.

I commend you, Olli, for being able to speak good English at the age of 16.

Edited by Alias, 22 November 2007 - 08:21 PM.

[some_weirdGuy]

yeah, is going a bit off topic

thats one thing ive noticed, how things that shouldnt start a fight end in a 50 post long argument


and to think this who thing sparked from such a little thing as

maybe people should just stop being lazy asses and change the files manually, it only takes like what 60 seconds to load the folder and place the files. mad2.gif

which lead on from one thing to another, and really, was easily avoidable



anyway, ill start this back on the right topic:

how could you make a combined mod?(wouldn't you have to start from scratch and just add in stuff thats in each)

i haven't ever gotten a generals mod, but i have played other mods, and thats the only way i know how you could merge 2 mods into one

[Alias]

My original point was that he was a hypocrite because he complained about people not using an extra minute to change files, my point was he can't spend an extra minute on writing. If his dyslexia was bad enough to effect his spelling, you would see way more errors than you do currently.

Now, that is all. Back to topic.

how could you make a combined mod?(wouldn't you have to start from scratch and just add in stuff thats in each)

i haven't ever gotten a generals mod, but i have played other mods, and thats the only way i know how you could merge 2 mods into one

The problem would be full build queues and coding clashes. It's perfectly possible (if you remove some things), but it would be even more frustrating than starting your own mod.

Edited by Alias, 23 November 2007 - 07:21 AM.

[Phoenix911]

Again alias your being a moron, please tell me "how" you know how good or bad my dyslexia is?
You have no clue and its a condition that i have for the rest of my life its not something that you grow out of or can be treated with medication.
Do you have "any" understanding about what dyslexia is, and no i do not mean "yeah its a learning difficulty" if you have no clue or understanding about it then please don't make any comment about it.
And i know a lot of people who are older than me and have trouble spelling and such does not make that person stupid does it?

For example Einstein was in fact dyslexic and look at his achievements, Being able to spell perfect or perfectly writing grammar does not make you intellectual.
Some people are masters at words and spellings some are masters in numbers and so forth you should be mature enough by now to know not to judge people.

And i will agree sometimes my spelling is not great and other times i am not so bad but its all part and parcel i sure you understand being an intelligent chap like you say you are.
Also i am "NO" hypocrite i do take the time to post and i do take my time during posts, but remember when i re-read over my post if i made the mistake to start with then of course when i look it over i may just assume it is correct anyways. Even re reading your post does not mean u can correct it.

And you can't really compare taking the odd minute to move 2 files over to taking 5-10 mins to read and post on a forum, both are totally different things. Also we would not be having this discussion now if u did not make such a ass of a reply to my post in the first place.

[Alias]

I have mild dyslexia, and so does 2/4 members of my immediate family. I mix my letters around, I occasionally type words twice. But I at least take an extra minute to make my sentences understandable and presentable.

[some_weirdGuy]

maybe we should just leave it at that, or the same thing that just happened will happen again


you can just copy the whole generals folder and put one mod on one, and the other mod on the other

i think that should work


that way you can play both the mods you want to play

For example Einstein was in fact dyslexic

wow, i didn't know this, but when i searched it up just then, there seems to be a fair bit of debate over it

and also there seems to be no definite poof one way or the other


so i guess we will never truly know weather Einstein was dyslexic or not

many say that he was not
http://answers.googl...dview?id=114700
http://www.audiblox2...dyslexia005.htm

those are just some examples

while others say he was, but it would seem the ones saying he wasn't have better evidence then the ones saying he did(for ones saying he did i only found them saying that, without much, if any proof)

so i personally am inclined to believe he wasn't, but im open to this, show me proof one way or another.
i wont pass my final judgment without solid proof

he could have had a mild case of dyslexia, or it might have just been a complete myth

as i said, i guess we'll never truly know


ok, this is defiantly going off topic, but now im curious, does anyone have any proof about Einstein?

[olli]

I am also dyslexic.

Being dyslexic doesn't lower you IQ, so with Einstein it would have had no affect on his overall intellegance.

[Phoenix911]

I do try and make my posts understandable and imo they are, pend and others have all said before my grammar and spelling is not 100% perfect far from it, but it is understandable maybe its worse sometimes than it is other times.
This all comes down to a few things
1) I am tired/fatigue
2) Stressed
3) Or my inability to see where my post needs correcting.
Sometimes i will look over a post and think its fine but then find when i read it like a day later it had mistakes i know i should not have made. People do not always notice there mistakes at the time of doing them even if they re-read something they may miss the mistake.
Thats why there is a lot of of accidents and other such things in the world it all comes down to "human error"
Humans are Humans we all make mistakes some big some small no one on this planet could say there 100% perfect never made 1 mistake, some people make spelling mistakes and some may do bigger things like misjudge braking distance drink and drive causing an accident.

Not that i auguring now i just making a point

And olli never said being dyslexic made you stupid so if thats what u thought then u miss understood.
What i meant was a lot of people hear the words dyslexic or learning disability and automatically think "retard", Its the same thing as saying "pedophile" when people here that they automatically think dirty old man. However women can be pedophiles as well more often than not it is a man tho. Or when you hear a rape case or child abuse people naturally think its the father or it was a guy that did the crime but again women can do these things too.
Its all misconception about what we expect, thats why i made the comment because people think of people like Einstein as being smart and most would not even consider that he could of had a learning disability.

Anyways i boring myself and rambling like an old man. lol
So i gonna stop.

[olli]

What I was saying in my previous post was to some_wierdGuy because I can't understand why people are so shocked at the fact Einstein was dyslexic.

[some_weirdGuy]

i never thought of dyslexics as stupid, or retarded,

i thought that dyslexic meant that when you see words they look all funny, and muddled up(something to do with your brain not being able to read words properly), so you find it hard to spell out words. thats what it is, right?

ill admit i was surprised to hear you say Einstein was dyslexic, because i had never heard about that before.
thats what brought me to search it up,
(you have to admit, it sounds a bit romanticized, a man with a learning disability, becoming arguable one of the smartest people to have ever lived)


as i said, im open to this, but i have found better evidence from those saying he wasn't then those saying he was

Being dyslexic doesn't lower you IQ, so with Einstein it would have had no affect on his overall intellegance.

yes, dyslexia doesn't make you dumb, i know this, sorry if thats what you thought i was saying, i wasn't

Anyways i boring myself and rambling like an old man. lol
So i gonna stop.

lol

People do not always notice there mistakes at the time of doing them even if they re-read something they may miss the mistake.

yep, thats me (though i now have a spelling checker, that finds most of my mistakes)

[olli]

Dyslexia comes in all forms. To what some people find extremely hard concepts, I find very simple and easy. A lot of the easy stuff to me is hard, because of the way my brain works and it doesn't follow the logical thought pattern in the way I think.
My organisation is appauling for my age as when I took the test, my organisational skills were below what they would expect from a 10 year old. However, my vocabulary and speech and verbal communication was way way above what they expect for someone of my age, and I was placed in the top 1% of the country for all people aged 5-20. This is done at the age of 15. I also had a little bit of difficulty taking oral instructions and I still do need to ask someone 4 or 5 times to spell a word, because I is very hard for me to process it all at once, because that part of my brain works very slow and more often than none the word has to be said to me 1 letter at a time whilst I write each letter down slowly. Also my spelling is bad.
I also find that my short term memory and attention span is miniscule, but i have an incredible long term memory.
A lot of dyslexic people (including me) also day dream very often and have very creative imaginative minds which can lead to all sorts of fantastic peices of art work.

When handwriting words, I will often put words in the wrong order and letters in the wrong places, and when reading out aloud I will add words in with out knowing, or miss words out, or miss letters out or read them in the wrong order.


There are also so many other fascinating things about the human mind that alot of people will of never noticed, but I will explain that later if needed!

Edited by olli, 25 November 2007 - 04:05 PM.

[Phoenix911]

Lets put it like this I was been told by specialists before when I was diagnosed with dyslexia that normal people think inside the box dyslexic people think outside the box.
Read into that how you want.

[some_weirdGuy]

yes, the mind is an amazing thing

many of the things your saying dyslexics do(like being less organized, but more creative, ect) is what, during one of my classes, a type B thinker does

im a type B thinker,

type A thinks are organized, and practical, if it works, then dont change it sorta attitude(the example given was if the world was type a thinks, houses would all be one room, with a roof, door and maybe a window


while type B thinks are less organized, but more creative, thus they come up with ideas for improving things



so really, the only real difference between dyslexic and non-dyslexic people, is that dyslexics find it spell words, or whatever


but you all spell very well

There are also so many other fascinating things about the human mind that alot of people will of never noticed,

lol, that makes me think of optical illusions

like this one: look at the black + in the middle
http://www.haydur.co...al_illusion.gif

the purple dots disappear, its so weird!

[olli]

No one has ever told me this before and I haven't just found this why reserching, but I have noticed over the years at school and on deeper thought by myself, that the human mind, and it's abilities are balanced and what it is capable of achieving is all part of a complexed balancing mechanism.
I'll explain more in a bit....

[Phoenix911]

I'll explain more in a bit....

when he's had more time to find facts out

[some_weirdGuy]

lol