Number one on *my* list is "God made you this way for a reason!"
Kat
Original Message:
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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).
From the Home Office in Laramie, Wyoming:
Today's Top Ten List
"Things That Make Us Cringe Every Time We Hear Them"
10a. "They're married?! "
10. "Don't bother the nice man/woman"
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"
1. "You're so Brave."
Kendall
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]]
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
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
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: software will not swear!
>
> Golly, my dad gave me a laptop for my birthday, with
> naturally speaking
> software female voice, Kate. There is just one
> problem; Kate refuses
> to say
> most swear words! Why do they censor it? It should
> be up to the
> people to
> decide. And it's inconsistent. It will say fucked,
> but not fucker, it
> says
> shitty, but not ass..... a helper said somebody
> else's talking device
> also
> won't say cuss words. i just can't believe it.
> Anthony, Beth, do you
> know
> why they do it? sure I could defeat it by spelling
> the words slightly
> differently. But why on earth can't folks let us
> swear if we want to?
> microsoft's Sam can do it, why can't Kate?!
>
> Mag
>
>
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