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From: Anthony.Casey@hnews.fidonet.org (Anthony Casey)
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Subject: Re: Computer assistance needed
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Date: 13 Feb 90 15:16:48 GMT
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>No, what I was refering to was the gentleman who said something like
>this, "having a sighted person run off chapters has been found to be 
>effecacious". Iffecacious means effective, or well done, effecient, etc. 
>Try World book dictiojnary, webster's etc.

Ah, thanks. Another year, another word added to my ... um ... oh, what's a
good word? ... a list of words I have in my memory.

>I questioned his use of a sighted person to use the Kurzweil Machine, 
>meant for the blind, in order to read and copy material for a blind 
>person. I felt that if they had such a machine, then the blind people for 
>whom it was designed ought to be using it.

But surely (just to be argumentative), a device is a device is a device. And,
if it's useful to those who can see, why shouldn't they use it? Did you mean
blind people should exclusively use it?

Anthony

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