aplan4life

Some in the 'educational' communities actually are against 'invented'
spelling but technically...weren't the words that are on a spelling
list 'invented' at one time or another? Has anyone ever seen a
Young's Literal Translation Bible? HOLY MISSPELLINGS BATMAN! LOL
Seriously, even though the words look strange to me, I can still
understand what they say. And, in the same way, I've never not been
able to understand a single word that my children have not spelled
'correctly'. I can talk myself into seeing why spelling isn't a big
deal, I just wish society would stop being so darn stubborn with it.

I belonged to a website that had a few 'scholarly' types on it who
were very hard on some posters for their spelling and grammar, a few
us defended those unable to meet the standards. One 30 something when
writing would use 'their' despite whether talking about a place or a
person. However, ANYONE able to read would know which 'their' he
meant even if he didn't use the proper and established way to spell
it, I mean, when someone is talking we don't ask them which
'their/there' spelling they use, Good GRAVY!

Alright, I'm done with my spelling rant.... :-)

Jenniffer Baltzell

We've all seen this, right?

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht
oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist
and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rest can be a total mses and you
can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not
raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh?


--
Jenniffer in Harpers Ferry
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Listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life? ~Mary Oliver

On 4/21/06, aplan4life <aplan4life@...> wrote:
>
> Some in the 'educational' communities actually are against 'invented'
> spelling but technically...weren't the words that are on a spelling
> list 'invented' at one time or another? Has anyone ever seen a
> Young's Literal Translation Bible? HOLY MISSPELLINGS BATMAN! LOL
> Seriously, even though the words look strange to me, I can still
> understand what they say. And, in the same way, I've never not been
> able to understand a single word that my children have not spelled
> 'correctly'. I can talk myself into seeing why spelling isn't a big
> deal, I just wish society would stop being so darn stubborn with it.
>
> I belonged to a website that had a few 'scholarly' types on it who
> were very hard on some posters for their spelling and grammar, a few
> us defended those unable to meet the standards. One 30 something when
> writing would use 'their' despite whether talking about a place or a
> person. However, ANYONE able to read would know which 'their' he
> meant even if he didn't use the proper and established way to spell
> it, I mean, when someone is talking we don't ask them which
> 'their/there' spelling they use, Good GRAVY!
>
> Alright, I'm done with my spelling rant.... :-)
>
>
>
>


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jsnhawkins

--- In [email protected], "Jenniffer Baltzell"
<jjfbaltzell@...> wrote:
>
> We've all seen this, right?
>
> Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer
in waht
> oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht
the frist
> and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rest can be a total mses
and you
> can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid
deos not
> raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh?
>
>
>

Actually I've never seen anything like that. I was amazed at how
easily I was able to read it even though none of it is spelled right!
That really changes my mind as to how important spelling *really* is.

Betsy

Deb

Related to spelling and invented spelling quote:

I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way
--Mark Twain

--Deb