Is spelling a dying art?

[S-Marketing]

A questions mark is nothing to do with spelling, surely.

It's punctuation, isn't it.....? [runs for cover]

You can run, but you can't hide.

 

[CraigieDD]

Extraordinary spelling errors.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-st...-shool-sign-outside-a-school-115875-22343737/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...-spelling-error-Hollywood-Walk-Fame-star.html

http://lifegoggles.com/44/the-decline-of-the-english-language/

http://brandireland.wordpress.com/2009/08/07/oops-major-blooper-at-airtricity/

 

[Dawg]

The new Equality Act comes into force today. According to some reports,(and I don't know if they are Daily Mail foaming babble type reports), it will be illegal to discriminate against dyslexics.
Which should lead to some interesting data entry. For instance in your NHS records, or at the CRB checking system.
The future looks brite.

 

[Mike W]

Shouldn't that be employers or is it a spelling mistake.

It should be employers, you're right. But it's a typo, not a spelling mistake

Plus .... if you want to be critical, particularly with something like this, you should always make sure you get it right. Your question should have a '?' at the end.

 

Spelling the English language correctly is a huge waste of time and effort,particularly dificult for people learning the language from abroad.

The idea of language is to communicate ,using extra letters that have no meaning is simply inefficient or probably stupid.

I never misspell anything when I am talking to people.:|

I suspect the phonetic misspelling of the English language was deliberate by those that had a vested interest.?

Middle English.anyone.?

Lauerd me steres, noght wante sal me:
In stede of fode þare me louked he.
He fed me ouer watre ofe fode,
Mi saule he tornes in to gode.
He led me ouer sties of rightwisenes,
For his name, swa hali es.
For, and ife .I. ga in mid schadw ofe dede,
For þou wiþ me erte iuel sal .i. noght drede;
Þi yherde, and þi stafe ofe mighte,
Þai ere me roned dai and nighte.
Þou graiþed in mi sighte borde to be,
Ogaines þas þat droued me;
Þou fatted in oli me heued yhite;
And mi drinke dronkenand while schire es ite!
And filigh me sal þi mercy
Alle daies ofe mi life for-þi;
And þat .I. wone in hous ofe lauerd isse
In lengþe of daies al wiþ blisse

Earl

 

[BizGurl]

Spelling the English language correctly is a huge waste of time and effort,particularly dificult for people learning the language from abroad.

The idea of language is to communicate ,using extra letters that have no meaning is simply inefficient or probably stupid.

I never misspell anything when I am talking to people.:|

Middle English.anyone.?

Lauerd me steres, noght wante sal me:
In stede of fode þare me louked he.
He fed me ouer watre ofe fode,
Mi saule he tornes in to gode.
He led me ouer sties of rightwisenes,
For his name, swa hali es.
For, and ife .I. ga in mid schadw ofe dede,
For þou wiþ me erte iuel sal .i. noght drede;
Þi yherde, and þi stafe ofe mighte,
Þai ere me roned dai and nighte.
Þou graiþed in mi sighte borde to be,
Ogaines þas þat droued me;
Þou fatted in oli me heued yhite;
And mi drinke dronkenand while schire es ite!
And filigh me sal þi mercy
Alle daies ofe mi life for-þi;
And þat .I. wone in hous ofe lauerd isse
In lengþe of daies al wiþ blisse

Earl

Errm...I'll try and read that later when I have time.......ghosted!

 

[Gaskell]

Have a look at this car advert:

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/2095510.htm

 

[ChrisBD]

I feel that the correct use of spelling and grammar is a thing of the past, and I don't think that to be a good thing.

My own spellong is quite poor; I read often and have two masters degrees, however without spellchecker I would be lost.

I can accept that people make spelling mistakes, on a forum, on Facebook etc but not in a work or business envionment. I also hate with a passion this abreviated text speak, this I find wors than anuthing, particularly when it is used in products or brands aimed directly at children - just to sound cool; Kidz Toyz etc etc HATE IT

I can however understand the argument about the complezity (uneceseraly so in some eyes) of English; as a Welsh speaker also I find it much easier to spell phonetically (as in Welsh). There may be odd letters or sounds, but its all phonetic!

 

[Dawg]

Blimey! You've kept your school books a long time.

Spelling the English language correctly is a huge waste of time and effort,particularly dificult for people learning the language from abroad.

The idea of language is to communicate ,using extra letters that have no meaning is simply inefficient or probably stupid.

I never misspell anything when I am talking to people.:|

I suspect the phonetic misspelling of the English language was deliberate by those that had a vested interest.?

Middle English.anyone.?

Lauerd me steres, noght wante sal me:
In stede of fode þare me louked he.
He fed me ouer watre ofe fode,
Mi saule he tornes in to gode.
He led me ouer sties of rightwisenes,
For his name, swa hali es.
For, and ife .I. ga in mid schadw ofe dede,
For þou wiþ me erte iuel sal .i. noght drede;
Þi yherde, and þi stafe ofe mighte,
Þai ere me roned dai and nighte.
Þou graiþed in mi sighte borde to be,
Ogaines þas þat droued me;
Þou fatted in oli me heued yhite;
And mi drinke dronkenand while schire es ite!
And filigh me sal þi mercy
Alle daies ofe mi life for-þi;
And þat .I. wone in hous ofe lauerd isse
In lengþe of daies al wiþ blisse

Earl

 

[KidsBeeHappy]

What about handwriting?

I have terrible handwriting, always have had. I learnt to touch type when I was about 8 years old and spent the whole of my education waiting for the system to catch up with me and realise that neat handwriting wasn't going to be a big part of the future.

Well. I've now got an 8 year old daughter, who is bright, clever, full of imaginative writing, but with terrible handwriting. Should that be an issue??

Will she, other than school, ever have to provide anything in handwriting (other than of course the normal forms in block capitals) that mean that it's an important skill for her?

I am inclined to tell the school that i'm not worried. She can type already (full words not txt slang), she can format and edit word documents and produce a better looking document than I can.

Am I missing something???

 

[Becky Midgley]

Just throwing in my 2 pennies...

I am a stickler for the correct use of grammar wherever possible, although even with my English/journalism academic background I still make mistakes and question myself. Language also evolves, but this has to be in the pursuit of clarity and not just because of laziness.

When I learned to spell my mum and I developed clever and memorable mnenomics to help with the most tricky of words, she even came up with one for spelling Czechoslovakia (which I had in a spelling test aged 10) which I still remember to this day!

On the note of text speak - my niece (who is 13) and her friends always add letters e.g., "hiyyaaa baybee"! I cannot get my head around it. And the only response she can give is, "Well that's the way everyone does it at school". It kills me. She does insist that she can spell correctly but chooses not to in order to maintain kudos with her peers, but when asked to show me the courtesy of writing correctly when we converse on MSN or via text, she duly does and only makes a few mistakes mostly when a word sounds nothing like it is spelt.

What gives, eh?

 

[Cathy Duncan]

Well, in my opinion, if there are errors in spellings nowadays (being committed by people so often), it is because of extensive use of internet. People use shortcuts to generate messages quickly. That’s the major root of such issues. I think, it isn’t a big issue at all, because what we need is one can make us understand what he actually want to say and that’s it!

 

[Mike W]

it isn’t a big issue at all, because what we need is one can make us understand what he actually want to say and that’s it!

Still helps if we get the words right...

Only teasing

 

[KM-Tiger]

"I helped my uncle jack off a horse"

Just realised ... is that a capital offence?

 

[Psl]

I suffer from dyslexia and therefore I have to read, re-read and check again everything I type and/or write. However, rather than it being a hindrance it does mean I concentrate more on the content of what I type/write.