Today in Room 24 I saw a spelling I was completely unprepared for. Which word in this sentence will be an acceptable use spelling in 20 years?:
Wii have 10 mroe das for Holloween.
Nintendo would be proud.
Friday
Now Look What We've Done!
Yes, I'm a spelling nazi. Can't help myself. Misspellings and typos bug me less than improper usage of a word: your for you're or there for their, for instance. The other night on ABC News I saw a piece about one dictionary publisher (not Webster's, and I don't remember which one) is completely caving in. For instance, even though 'vocal cord' is the proper spelling, so many people spell it 'vocal chord', that dictionary is including both spellings. Nice. Let's just go ahead and dumb down the entire dictionary to go hand-in-hand with texting. Let's make 'R' an acceptable spelling for 'are' and 'U' an acceptable spelling for 'you', while you're at it.
Today in Room 24 I saw a spelling I was completely unprepared for. Which word in this sentence will be an acceptable use spelling in 20 years?:
Nintendo would be proud.
Today in Room 24 I saw a spelling I was completely unprepared for. Which word in this sentence will be an acceptable use spelling in 20 years?:
Nintendo would be proud.
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I saw something much like that on my college freshman outline today! We joke on campus that the students think that just because we aren't English teachers that stuff doesn't matter! Ugh! I'm not really sure how it came to be this bad... except one school counselor told me this week that all I needed for this next generation of kids was a pitch fork and a whip... hmmm... that scares me a little!
Improper usage bugs me too - but not nearly as much as serving cool-whip instead of real whipped cream! I am not infallible, though. I admit I depend on spell-check more than I want to.
Will we soon be reading Shakeseare in shorthand?
2b? Nt2b
umm so my first comment "could not be processed." let's try that again! i too am a spelling/misused word nazi. your for you're is by far the most annoying
Boy, have you ever touched on a hot button for me! My #1 is the rampant misuse of "it's". I see that EVERYWHERE.
Jessica is experiencing what your mom did - as a Math professor she outraged her students by counting off for improper usage. They just didn't get that they have to communicate effectively in other subjects.
And I agree that we can look at texting for a lot of the blame for the utter breakdown in spelling. In another generation there won't be anything known as proper spelling.
I know you must cringe when you read my blog. When I put my first year of my blog into a book and spell checked, I think I had 200 misspelled words - eeek! Granted most of them were medical technology but alot were every day words too!
Oh, I so think Holloween will be accepted. Along with my personal, favorite, "Valentime's" When I was in the school system, that would drive me CRAZY!
I get those emails at work when no word is correct and they send it that way! And I really think that it's and its is so easy - why does anyone have troubl with that?
(I wish there was spell-check on the comment page.....)
Now Denise, you have really got something with that idea of spell check for comments. Why don't you coffee-group ladies twist Phil's arm to work on that?
I think that Holloween and Valentime's day should also come into vogue with vanilla paper.
Yes, yes, yes, -- but don't wii all love that he spelled 'wii' properly according to an electronics game?? That, truly, thrilled me for his intellect and recall abilities!
When Tony was little, there was an easy listening station in Houston with the call letters K Y N D--and they would follow those by saying "Kind" in some smooth, deep, announcer type voice. So, on a spelling test in 1st grade, guess what Tony wrote. :)
Ow. It hurts me.
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