Don't blame the kids if they can't spell

[West Ender]

Originally Posted by Eric

Actually found the joke funny .... the only one that I can remember is one in Latin, think it was some kinda (sorry about that, it's Canadian) oracular prediction give to king something-or-other: translates as "you will go you will return never in war will you perish" ... not as much fun as yours .... If you have time on your hands, I recommend "The Story of English": Robert McCrum, William Cran, and Robert MacNeil ... think you will enjoy it.

I'll check if the library has it.

[Sara]

Originally Posted by BERNADETTE

I think it is the shop on Peel Street that does the printing on t-shirts and suchlike. Used to have the first stall next to cigarette kiosk on the market but have moved into the shop now. It is on the left going towards the toilets

Thanks, will let her know that there might be a job going.

[Eric]

I guess spelling can be important. Someone in our PM's office issued press releases related to PM Harper's visit to the Arctic. The press release referred to Nunavut's capital as "Iqualuit" rather than "Iqaluit". In the Inuktitut language, "Iqaluit" means "many fishes", "Iqualuit", however, means "people with unwiped asses". Strange but true.

[jaysay]

Over the last two night BBC Look Northwest have been featuring signs with spelling mistakes that viewers have sent in, some of these were actually sign written over shops "Glases" was about the best, I'll look on the Look North Web Site and see if there is a link
If you go on the Web Site last nights program can be watched

[Rastus]

You have probably seen this before

A Little Poem Regarding Computer Spell Checkers...

Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.

[lancsdave]

Originally Posted by BERNADETTE

I think it is the shop on Peel Street that does the printing on t-shirts and suchlike. Used to have the first stall next to cigarette kiosk on the market but have moved into the shop now. It is on the left going towards the toilets

I don't think so. We can't afford to make smelling pistakes

The shop advertising the job actually generates cash

[BERNADETTE]

Originally Posted by lancsdave

I don't think so. We can't afford to make smelling pistakes

The shop advertising the job actually generates cash

Sorry my mistake, could have sworn I read you were after somebody for the shop

[lancsdave]

Originally Posted by BERNADETTE

Sorry my mistake, could have sworn I read you were after somebody for the shop

No problem, I can see which earlier answer caused the confusion

As busy as we are I'm afraid we could neither afford more staff or find enough space for them to work in

[mattylad]

I think one reason for the bad spelling of today is that at school when we are taught our ABC & to write, we write on paper with a pen/pencil. We learn to form our letters and eventually our words on paper - we learn the flow of a word or sentence on paper with a pen/pencil.
In our English classes where we get more advanced we learnt using paper & pen, heck even a fountain pen.

Then we leave school and use a keyboard and then all we are doing is pushing buttons. Its not the same, thought processes have to change, typing is done a lot faster than when we learnt. In general you can type a heck of a lot faster than you can write on paper.

As such our brains cannot handle it as well and our hands are working a lot faster than our brain can remember the rules of the English language & our spelling and grammar goes out of the window.

But given that there are spell checkers available for nearly every writing application or web browser then in reality there should be no excuse for bad spelling. Apart from spell checkers cannot always get it right

The newspapers have no excuse, they should be checked & edited before publication as part of the process.

Either that or people are just getting more lazy/illiterate