Lol I counted about ten mistakes in your message. You wrote: Hi, this is what he was in my opinion trying to say. An extremely contributive post, really. ;) You have such a thing on GMA games - a sound review. This seems to be one of the largest problems of the blind community when it comes tospelling. It seems that most blind Americans or modern members of western cultures in general don't pay much attention to their grammar, punctuation and sentence formulation skills at all. Many of them have never read or even studied how to read Braille, or have done so in extremely few rare cases, probably too lazy to change their mind, considering Braille to be something terribly outdated, difficult and exhausting to master, and too time consuming for their liking in this cool new age of all the hi-tech stuff out there. *sigh* Therefore, they haven't had the opportunity to collect the correct manner of spelling different words in their brain, even without a conscious thouht. This is a process everyone's brain performs when reading texts - you see where the author puts commas, semicollons and dashes, you see how this and that word is spelled, and your brain stores it in memory for later use, even when you're not aware of it. Now, when a speech synthesizer or another person reads everything aloud for you, you naturally don't have the chance to take advantage of this brain feature. :-) I don't say that I am a Braille reading master - I do read terribly slowly and it is certainly much less comfortable and much more difficult than using a screen reader, but I do know the system and do still use it some days. And even now, when I have a decent computer, I always try to pay attention to the spelling of every new word I come across that I'm uncertain about. And I believe even a spell checker could not fix most of these errors, as it is just a software like any other program with just a limited dictionary. For spell checkers, translators and most other software, the computers would be an artificially intelligent neural network in order to increase the effectiveness and use of the software. With this all said, I shouldn't post any more on this topic. I just felt this was something I had to express, but now as following this thread wouldn't probably result in a constructive and helpful discussion and doesn'T have that much to do with accessible games really, I don't encourage any replies here on this list. Thanks for understanding, Lukas -- Dirk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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