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Post by ¤LedZeppelinLady¤ on Aug 7, 2008 17:51:24 GMT -5
Fed up with his students' complete inability to spell common English correctly, a British academic has suggested it may be time to accept "variant spellings" as legitimate. Rather than grammarians getting in a huff about "argument" being spelled "arguement" or "opportunity" as "opertunity," why not accept anything that's phonetically (fonetickly anyone?) correct as long as it can be understood? "University teachers should simply accept as variant spelling those words our students most commonly misspell." To kickstart his proposal, Smith suggested 10 common misspellings that should immediately be accepted into the pantheon of variants, including "ignor," "occured," "thier," "truely," "speach" and "twelth" (it should be "twelfth"). news.yahoo.com/s/nm/britain_spelling_odd_dcStupidest. Thing. Ever. If you teach people to spell things incorrectly, they believe that's how it's actually spelled and no one will ever improve. Bad spelling drives me nuts, especially when people spell it "your" instead of "you're." Or "there" instead of "their" etc. Makes me want to rip heads off.
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damarust
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Post by damarust on Aug 7, 2008 22:03:56 GMT -5
agh. people are seriously retarded. how are they in college if they cant spell things like TRULY. seriously.
edit: im from friggin ecuador and i can spell all those words correctly. btw, what is "thier" a misspell of?
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Post by BassChickGD on Aug 8, 2008 10:05:24 GMT -5
i'm assuming "their"
Yeah that's a horrible idea. That's almost as dumb as accepting wrong math answers as long as you're 10 numerals from the answer. Stupid.
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Post by credo on Aug 8, 2008 12:53:37 GMT -5
Institute a proper education system and it won't bastard matter. By the way, I'm about to make a large hypocritical statement here, but I couldn't help noticing the bad grammar in that first post, or the fact that grammarian is totally not an acceptible word in English
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Post by zimmie on Aug 8, 2008 16:06:58 GMT -5
Yeah, I don't really understand this crap of not wanting to tell a kid they're wrong. It also goes with not using a red pen because it lowers their self-esteem. B.S.
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Post by traceroni on Aug 8, 2008 19:39:01 GMT -5
Sow I con gragewate skool now? wayte till mi sistur fines owt I con bee a collage gragewit!
In all seriousness though, what the hell are they thinking? The reason to go to school is to get educated. You think someone will hire someone who misspells on their resume or keep someone who can't spell or use grammar correctly? It's just wasting their money not telling them. So what if it makes them feel bad, it's better than not getting a job.
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