Wee Kant Spel Two Guud Ennyhow, Sew Wee Shuld Faggeddabowdit (Trees And Things)

teaweed: Spelling Hysteria Trumps Content

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:54:18 EST

English professors should probably grade heavily for spelling. Regardless of subject, giving a zero for spelling errors is unreasonable, lazy, and crotchety (at best). Neglecting to run a spell checker is arguably indicative of immaturity and poor judgment

ivyafire: Re: Here's my two biggest misspelling nits.

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:25:08 EST

I'm more bothered by principal for principle myself.

Phase and faze make me cringe when they're mixed up.

I try not be bothered when people can't spell, but I can't see how it's any different than not noticing when someone calls Nebraska Ka

tomc: Time to move on

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:38:02 EST
I think we should abandon writing and just use video.

wetkarma: Re: Here's my two biggest misspelling nits.

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 03:20:01 EST
I'm more bothered by principal for principle myself.
That said language constantly evolves. I have a hard time understanding some cockney accents.

skeeter1: Re: Sarge Would Not Be Amused.

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 19:59:48 EST
"She probably wants you in detention."
Well, maybe she would have, but that was 40 years ago, and "Sarge" is pushing up daisies now. God bless her for what she taught me. I tend to remember the teachers I've had over the years, some f

MayorBob: Sarge Would Not Be Amused.

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 14:29:29 EST
"I had an English teacher in high school, Lynne ("Sarge") Saunders, and she was one tough old gal. She did, however, teach me a great deal about writing. I owe her a debt of grattitude."

She probably wants you in detention.

skeeter1: Spelling and Grammar Matters

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 13:45:54 EST
I blame some of it on "texting". There's even an online dictionary dedicated to it. R U KUL, OR R U JST A CRB?
I hate the shit myself, but I don't think it's

JimmyHavok: Re: Wee Kant Spel Two Guud Ennyhow, Sew Wee Shuld

Sat, 9 Aug 2008 23:34:48 EST
Invariably, the college teachers I have had who made a big fuss about spelling were not very good. And I do mean invariably, there was almost a linear relationship between concern with spelling and incompetence.
Of course, now we all have spell-ch

ckm: Re: Wee Kant Spel Two Guud Ennyhow, Sew Wee Shuld

Sat, 9 Aug 2008 23:09:28 EST
If you are a university student, e.g. not in a mandatory education environment, then the teachers role is knowledge transfer.
If you can't even be bothered to use the tools at your disposal to do a basic sanity check on your work, then yo

skeptic: Re: hooked on phonics

Sat, 9 Aug 2008 09:13:43 EST
I don't agree that phonetic spelling would be needed in order for English to "make some more sense" as you put it; for those who really know the English language, bizarre though it is (no other language on Earth has such complicated spelling) the language

haumoana: Re: hooked on phonics

Sat, 9 Aug 2008 05:18:25 EST
The point about those particular words
Their, weird and seize is they are exceptions to the rule i before e except after c. But in all languages there are exceptions.
I also can't stand reading words spelt phonetically it takes me at least twice as l

JimmyHavok: Re: Wee Kant Spel Two Guud Ennyhow, Sew Wee Shuld

Sat, 9 Aug 2008 03:36:42 EST
why should I even care what you wrote?
Because, as a teacher, you're getting paid to care.

delete me: Re: Can't Spell?

Sat, 9 Aug 2008 02:20:15 EST
But do we rlleay need to konw how to splel? As lnog as ecah wrod has all of the rgiht letetrs, mnay of us can stlil raed tehm, rhigt?

ckm: Re: Wee Kant Spel Two Guud Ennyhow, Sew Wee Shuld

Sat, 9 Aug 2008 02:02:16 EST
I don't understand. All students writing papers are doing so on computers and all computers have spell checkers.
If it were me, I would ask students to submit all papers electronically. If you submit a paper where there are tons of spell c

keta: Can't Spell?

Fri, 8 Aug 2008 18:19:25 EST
Then you're not worth reading, IMHO. We all can and most do forgive the odd spelling error. But if I'm taking the time to read your shit, then you'd best have taken the the time to spell correctly, or your shit goes unread by me. There's

JimmyHavok: I'm of two minds

Fri, 8 Aug 2008 17:30:47 EST
On the one hand, when I see misspellings in magazines or newspapers, it really irks me. The editors of paid publications ought to have the skillz to spot both misspellings and homonyms, but it seems that in today's world, if it passes your computer's

gameCoder: Re: hooked on phonics

Fri, 8 Aug 2008 16:21:48 EST
I'd just like to point out that, particularly with regard to this story, it seems absurd to disallow a post just because of a misspelled word.

gameCoder: hooked on phonics

Fri, 8 Aug 2008 16:20:09 EST
If we are going to allow incorrect spellings like w i e r d, t h i e r, and s i e z e because they are "too hard" to spell, why not just go hog wild and allow only phonetic spellings for all words. W e e r d, there and s e e z e would probably be eas

MayorBob: Here's my two biggest misspelling nits.

Fri, 8 Aug 2008 15:30:45 EST
Payed for paid and loose for lose. Everytime I see those two goofs it gives me an industrial strength headache -- morans!