ktag
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Post by ktag on May 2, 2006 22:27:19 GMT -5
Usually, Claudia's writing is just a bunch of misspellings and some bad grammar here and there. But this? Is just a mess.
They keep talking about how Claudia can't pay attention and stuff, so why don't they just say she has ADD? Why keep claiming she doesn't have a learning disability when they keep showing us that she does? She has the thought process of a first grader. I know I'm basically just rehashing, but...WHY??
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Post by jen on May 3, 2006 2:13:59 GMT -5
Even if you took away the bad spelling of that quote, the sentences are still very unsophisticated, and not the way you'd expect a 13 year old to form sentences. It sounds more like Claire Pike trying to write.
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Post by sotypical42483 on May 3, 2006 12:04:18 GMT -5
I hate how Claudia even misspells her friends NAMES. She does it with Mallory and Jessi. Her problem with spelling was believable early on, I guess maybe when Ann was writing the books or something. I mean she does have a couple mistakes in Kristy's Great Idea, but it's nothing absolutely unbelievable. I don't know why they couldn't just leave it at that.
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Post by aln1982 on May 3, 2006 15:29:40 GMT -5
The spelling errors sometimes made Claudia's journal entries almost unreadable. It got kind of annoying - like get some help with your problems in school already.
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Amalia
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Post by Amalia on May 7, 2006 2:35:06 GMT -5
Maybe little kids liked it, so they could giggle at it, thus the writers made it more exaggerated?
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Post by macca on May 7, 2006 23:18:30 GMT -5
^ it became absolutely ludicruous in the later books though. Who the hell writes "who are you, Janine"? I mean, come on.
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Post by jen on May 8, 2006 0:47:26 GMT -5
What I don't get is the example I posted in the chain letter book... "How are you Janine, and who are mom and dad?". She gets it right the first time, but wrong the second? Did she not know which one was the correct one and just used both, just in case?
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ktag
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Post by ktag on May 8, 2006 1:27:19 GMT -5
Does she never ever reread what she writes? And if she does, does she not see what's wrong? All they had to do was say she was dyslexic and this whole thing wouldn't bother me so much. But no, they have to insist that she's NOT. They go to all the trouble to bring it up and say it exists and people have it and it's fine, but Claudia doesn't have it. She really, really doesn't. Oh no. All her brain cells just go toward her art and hiding junk.
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jen
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Post by jen on May 8, 2006 4:51:48 GMT -5
Must be why she's such a bloody good artist, then.
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Post by hitzpink on May 9, 2006 20:05:43 GMT -5
See, the reason the how/who thing bothers me so much is because it IS something that a dyslexic person would do. But of course they have to go out of their way to say she doesn't have a learning disability.
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Amalia
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Post by Amalia on May 12, 2006 4:19:24 GMT -5
Maybe the Claudia character is thrown into the group for those who are not that bright or bad at school? So then they won't feel so bad about it? And they insist that she doesn't have a disability so not-so-bright kids won't think that there is something wrong with them for being not-so-bright?
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Post by sotypical42483 on May 12, 2006 12:13:03 GMT -5
^I'm sure that's exactly right, but they just took it TOO far. Even a "not so bright" 13 year old should know the difference between How and Who and how to correctly spell Jessi.
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macca
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Post by macca on May 12, 2006 22:35:55 GMT -5
I don't know why they were so determined to ensure Claudia didn't have a learning disability. That would've made much more sense.
Also, why can't Claudia spell "Mary Anne" when she's been her friend since toddlerhood?
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Post by wanderingfrog on May 13, 2006 17:28:17 GMT -5
Claudia so obviously has a learning disability that I have no idea why they keep saying she doesn't. They tell us that she just "doesn't apply herself," but they show us a whole lot of things that would only happen if she had an LD.
Does anyone have a copy of the Ann M. Martin bio handy? I remember that it mentions readers suggesting that Claudia might have a learning disability and that Ann said it was a good theory, as if it were likely, but then later Claudia's Freind Friend was published and it said Claudia was tested and didn't have a learning disability.
Often, so-called "experts" in many fields fail to properly diagnose problems which are glaringly obvious. In the little world inside my head, Claudia's learning disability is one of those cases, and she'll finally be diagnosed with an LD at some point in high school or even later, and will briefly be extremely bitter about "experts," teachers, and her parents failing to realize this before.
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Post by booboobrewer on May 15, 2006 19:30:29 GMT -5
In the AMM bio, it's said that Claudia is based on her sister Jane; Ann/Jane is similar to Janine/Claudia academically speaking, but she "heightened" the situation, making Janine a genius, and Claudia extremely lazy. But I think it's mentioned also that Jane herself is dyslexic. What would have been so bad about making Claudia dyslexic as well, I thought. I agree that the "doesn't apply herself" excuse didn't hold up as the series progressed and the 7th grade storyline came into play.
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