🚀 go-pugleaf

.. and it came to pass that Jim Crowther <replies@crowfam.demo
n.co.uk> uttered forth:
>In article <ZsrNMAASfEt4EwQK@ghastly.demon.co.uk>, 'Dungeon' Dave
><Dungeon@SpamNot.Here> writes
>[]
>>Numerical dyslexia is called "dyspraxia" but this tends to be less
>                               ^^^^^^^^^ *not so*, there is a word for
>it, which others may know off hand.  Dyspraxia is something else again,
>and then some.

Apologies - I thought it was called that, as someone was referred
to being dyspraxic whenthey had number blindness. I don't recall
them having impaired motor skills... perhaps I was told wrong.
Wonder what it is (term for numerical dyslexia) then?
>
<snip>

>BTW, I would like to observe that a very large proportion of the folk
>who work as engineers in the broadcast TV industry (my bag) are by their
>own admission dyslexic, and got into the business because you only had
>to understand, and *do*, not prove yourself on paper.  Me, I'm not
>dyslexic AFAIK, but I got into it because I got so bored with writing -
>I would have an answer to a question ready in my head in 10 secs, and it
>took 10 mins to write down, by which time I was bored and wanting to get
>onto something else.
>
>Just my 2p.

.. and a very good one it is, also - I know of a few mechanics who
were hopeless at writing reports, but could diagnose problems
with an engine just by listening and feeling. They certainly didn't
pick up that skill by reading about it!!
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"Dungeon" Dave, in anti-harvest mode...

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