I seem to remember that when you first joined this forum, a lot of people "jumped down your throat" about your spelling and grammar, until it was established that you were dyslexic.
Perhaps not everyone here realises yet.
A mate of mine in my school days, who was dyslexic, used to say that she was a member of the "F.B.I. - (National Dyslexic Association!)"
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Dyslexic (or similar). In which case, that's okay then.
But, surely, even then, confusing "there" and "they" is hardly an easy mistake to make. They don't sound the same, and the usage of the two words is quite different. Admittadly though, I guess it's hard to understand what it is like to have dyslexia when you personally have no problems reading and writing.
I've known several people who geniunly have dyslexia, and it does annoy me the amount of times I see it banded about as an excuse (Not that I'm aiming that at you or anyone in particular, but it is something I've seen a LOT over the last few years. A bit like parents who used ADHD as an excuse for not bringing their kids up properly).
The ITV Telethons were three charity telethons organised and televised in the UK by the ITV network. They took place in 1988, 1990 and 1992. Each lasted for 27 hours and all were hosted by Michael Aspel.
The ITV Telethon originated from the 10-hour 'Thames Telethon', which ran in the London ITV region only, on October 2, 1980. Thames broadcast another Telethon in 1985.
The US-style continuous broadcast raised £1.25 million, and was considered such a success that a 27-hour marathon was broadcast across the entire network in 1988, involving participation and input from all of the regional broadcasters around the country.
A further two ITV Telethons followed in 1990 and 1992, the latter raising £15m. Michael Aspel was the frontman for all three.
Telethon has helped thousands of charities in the UK Many local TV stations like TVS and TSW contributed from company profits. In the TVS region alone the TVS Trust donated £1 Million pounds from its own chatiry the TVS Trust in 1990.
The Telethons were not only based in london but went regional to studios all over the country. From STV in scotland to Anglia TV in the East, TSW in the West and not to mention TVS in the south, who's inserts where voted best on the network.
I thought OFCOM was there to improve British television. It's become 20 times worse since they've got involved!
Telethons should be for charity purposes only. No one in there right mind will want to watch the current batch of ITV Z list Celebs beg for cash to make a programme! Will we have Jan Leeming and Trinny & Tranny aimlessly trying fill 24 hours of airtime with the odd link to the ITV News studios "in your region"?
"With just £1 you could buy ITV Production a new crayon to write another mind-numbing farce of a show!"
OFCOM is to allow TV station to run fund-raising telethons for channels to raise money for causes which are close to their heart - yes, themselves!
Stations will be able to raise money to put into making better programmes - and therefore directly rip-off the consumer rather than dedicating half their schedules to Quiz TV!
OFCOM believes it will help niche channels such as religious, ethnic minority or community focused stations produce better programming and raise between £50,000 and £150,000 a year.
And although they don't think it'll benefit the "big players" much, they estimated C4 could raise nearly £2m a year - but I can't see them begging for money myself!
So a sensible idea - or proof that OFCOM has finally gone completly insane?
OFCOM really are insane, this is got to the the must stupid idea I have heard off.
Why exactally? It's not hard, even for a dyslexic. I personally think you probabally just can't be bothered to put the proper effort in. If you really were prepared to put the effort in, you'd be able to understand the differences between "there" and "they" quite easily. Let's face it, you only really need to read other people's posts on this forum to get an idea of the contexts the two words are used in. As has been said, they aren't exactally two words which, apart from similar spelling, can really be that easily confused. It's not like you even make any attempts to guess which is the correct woprd, you just use "there" instead of "they" all the time.
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A former member
I never heard to learn it, in the high school / college there give a person that wrote most of my English work, so there sound the same, so I never had to remember becasue the person I spoke to alway wrote down the correct spelling
