these people make you want to just throw up don't
they? 

--- Trisha Cummings <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> We parents get to hear any number of stupid things
> also.
> 
> After hearing Cerebral Plasy people have ask - How
> retarded is she... ((((not as retarded as You!!!!)))
> And the old lady at church told me - God did this to
> her becasue I am a bad person. 
> And my favorite - God only gives those children to
> special people. 
> Oh and - they have sweet and loving personalities to
> make up for it.
> 
>        
> 
>                           Trisha
> 
> 
> 
>    
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cerebral Palsy List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf
> Of Kendall David Corbett
> Sent: Monday, April 17, 2006 2:28 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: software will not swear!
> 
> 
> Ohh, I like it!  A corollary to that one is:
> 
> "If your faith were strong enough, he'd be healed."
> =20
> 
> My mom had "friends" from church that actually said
> that to her!
> 
> Kendall=20
> 
> An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's
> redundant!)
> 
> The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the
> unreasonable one
> persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
> Therefore, all
> progress depends on the unreasonable man.
> 
> -George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [log in to unmask]
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]=20
> Sent: Monday, April 17, 2006 11:11 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [C-PALSY] software will not swear!
> 
> Number one on *my* list is "God made you this way
> for a reason!"
> 
> Kat
> 
> 
> Original Message:
> -----------------
> From: Kendall David Corbett [log in to unmask]
> Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 11:44:09 -0600
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: software will not swear!
> 
> 
> Janet and I came up with a Top Ten (or so) List
> (like Letterman's) of
> things that "Make Us Cringe Every Time We Hear 'Em".
>  I'll include it
> for your amusement (or bemusement).=20
> 
> From the Home Office in Laramie, Wyoming:
> 
> Today's Top Ten List
>                                   =20
>                                   =20
> "Things That Make Us Cringe Every Time We Hear Them"
> 
>                                   =20
> 10a.  "They're married?! "
> 
> 10.  "Don't bother the nice man/woman"
>                                    =20
>   9.  "Let me help you with that!"
> 
>   8.  "Wheelchair Bound"
> 
>   7.  "You Drive!?!"
> 
>   6. 	"...And they even have jobs!"
> 
>   5.  "Those people"
> 
>   4.  "How are we today?"
> 
>   3.  "What would (s)he like?"
> 
>   2.  "Honey"=20
> 
>   1.  "You're so Brave."
> 
> Kendall=20
> 
> An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's
> redundant!)
> 
> The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the
> unreasonable one
> persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
> Therefore, all
> progress depends on the unreasonable man.
> 
> -George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kathleen Salkin
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]=20
> Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2006 8:44 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [C-PALSY] software will not swear!
> 
> Right - they think we should just smile all the
> time!  Makes me =20
> grumpy just thinking about it. LOL
> 
> Kat
> 
> On 16 Apr 2006, at 11:41, ken barber wrote:
> 
> I FIND THIS AMUSING. YOU KNOW LOTS OF  ooops. people
> do not want to consider us sexual beings and do not
> want to think of us that way and now someone does
> not
> want to think we would want to swear occassionly to
> put emphasis into our communication.
> 
> --- Kathleen Salkin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> > Can you not add words to these dictionaries? 
> Also,
> > you might want to
> > check and make sure any parental controls for any
> of
> > your software
> > packages are turned off.
> >
> > I don't run Windows at home, and I don't have
> admin
> > rights on my work
> > laptop, but I wonder if there are any settings in
> > Windows that would
> > control this sort of thing.  Any insights on this
> > from our techie
> > members?
> >
> > Kat
> >
> > On 16 Apr 2006, at 10:02, Anthony Arnold wrote:
> >
> > Mag,
> >
> > I don't know what to say, I haven't worked with
> > Naturally Speaking,
> > but I do
> > know that our communication devices that are
> shipped
> > with DECTalk (and
> > beginning to be shipped with RealSpeak too), all
> > have speech
> > dictionaries,
> > where you can altar words if necessary.  For a
> > example, one of my
> > friends at
> > work altered his name to be pronounced Mr.
> Wonderful
> > in one of the beta
> > versions I worked on just as a joke.  My guess is
> > you have something
> > like a
> > speech dictionary, and you probably can change
> back
> > those
> > pronunciations.
> >
> > As my friend would say "swear freely".
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Anthony
> > Visit my website at www.anthonyarnold.net
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Cerebral Palsy List
> > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> > Behalf Of
> > Magenta Raine
> > Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2006 2:57 AM
> 
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