When I accuse my son of being a pedant, he says, 'where did I learn that from, Mum?'
I am very reassured to discover that I was right to describe the Axiban my friend has been put on as an anti-coagulant and correct my other friend. However as I value her friendship I may not do it again!
Katie
It's Apixaban not Axiban and I'm afraid, like most other people, I call it a blood thinner and sometimes an anti-coagulant.
Sorry about the spelling mistake. I'm not actually on this drug myself and can't spell anyway. I'm a pedant about word meanings but am dyslexic. Tricky combination!
That's ok. When I'm reading I pick up on misspellings very quickly. However, recently, on facebook, I came across a piece where every word was spelt wrongly, the first and last letters were right but the rest were jumbled. I found I could read it just as easily as if it was perfect.
I found that very difficult to understand.
the brain can do amazing things.
This will probably generate a lot of argument, it always does! We just need to accept that both terms are used by doctors and patients and live with it.
When a doctor says 'I'm just going to put my hand on your tummy', what he should say is 'I'm just going to put my hand on your abdomen' but he doesn't. It's wrong, tummy is short for stomach but people know what he means.
Nowadays, maybe I should write 'he or she should say'!
Me too! I read a lot about Bletchley Park coders in Ww2,and apparently so could they.
This is it.
I read it in about the same time as I would have read it with the words spelt correctly. I don't know what that says about me!
I don’t know but as an ex teacher and special needs assistant I have doubts about the present emphasis on phonics. I couldn’t learn to read learning through phonics and my grandchildren had the same difficulty. But we all learned to read very speedily when simply told the words. Not all brains are the same!
I was taught with phonics with no problems. When it came to my children Look and Say was the preferred method. My daughter learned to read in no time but my two sons didn't in spite of having high IQs. Eventually, I taught them using phonics and they picked it up quite quickly.
I laughed to myself when the teacher said my son had made remarkable progress and was now one of the best readers in the class. I could have said I'd taught him but didn't!
I was glad when they realised that phonics was the better system but I can see that it doesn't suit all. With my children I got them to sound out the letters and if they couldn't guess the word, I told them what it was.
'they' is safer 😬
My bugbear ( slightly off topic) is1. spelling. 2. nouns and verbs used interchangeably e.g. medalling for getting a medal, marathoners for people taking part in a marathon.I understand language is dynamic but misspelt words stop me in my tracks.
My son's wife and extended family all use a word "carn't " and they are not alone
Is there such a thing as ‘slow AFib?’
Flecainide made things worse
What would we do without technology?
