another O/T - spelling

[ifm]

Adam, in no way am I belittling those who genuinely struggle with language and spelling.

What irks me is laziness amongst those who do not have this problem and let it go uncorrected

Same as

[ifm]

My kids knew thier alphabet before they entered nursery school

How old were they when they went to nursey school?

rediculous is the main one that makes me cringe atm

3 innit?

[TightEnd]

Adam, what do you think of the Book "Eats, Shoots, Leaves" by Lynne Truss?

I would imagine it got your goat!


Of course recieve/receive does not matter, but it still gets me. My problem...too much expensive education, ingrained in me

By the way, before I am criticised, my kids go to local schools, and will continue to go through the state system. A private single sex education did me no good whatsoever, apart from in academic qualifications...

[AdamM]

Trace, I don't get why spelling well invoke 'pride' in anyone?

TE, the ammount of times I go back into my posts and correct mis-spellings and typos because I don't want to be looked down on is unreal. this thread has proved particularly difficult in that respect and I'm sure I've still missed some.

Ian, My little girl is a year 1 and she's getting really good with working out words and weekly spelling tests have just started. I'm determined she will spell well, but not because I think it's important in itself, but because, as with many things, I don't want her to be left behuind / left out. I think numeracy is FAR more important than good spelling.

[byronkincaid]

3 innit?

dunno, I'm leaving it to the mrs to sort the school stuff out. how old were they when they could count to 10? just trying to compare my daughter to some clever, obviously well brought up children to see if I need to POOOSH her a bit more

[TightEnd]

Adam, you don't seriously think that because you might mis-spell a word in a post you will get looked down on?

I'm shocked. We might take the p*ss out of each other, I might get irked at something in real life but this is a poker forum, no one cares about spelling on here!

[AdamM]

I also went so a single sex Grammar school (though it was state owned rather than private) The level of education ws certainly available to me but mainly due to an inate problem and also the discovery of girls I wasted my time there. I had to go back to college as an adult to prove to myself I was capable of much more than I achieved at Grammar school. I still spell really badly but I do it with some decent A-level results after all. was going to go to uni too but by that stage I'd spent about as much time around teenagers as I could stand  

[AndrewT]

Lazy spelling/punctuation is something that drives me bonkers. I am one of the most laid-back, easy-going guys you'll ever meet, but seeing people write 'could of', 'your an idiot' etc, without even realising that there's anything wrong gets me in a tizzy. I worked as a book editor for four years and spent endless hours having to correct the text of authors who, it would appear, hadn't even bothered to read what they'd written back to themselves, so obvious were the mistakes.

I have had to resist the urge to go through this thread and correct the spelling/punctuation of blondites' posts in which they are correcting someone else's post as it would make me appear to be the world's biggest pedant.

A stand must be made against today's feckless youth and, seeing as the powers that be won't let me do it with guns, I choose the apostrophe as my weapon 

*re-reads post ten times before pressing the Post button*

[TightEnd]

3 innit?

dunno, I'm leaving it to the mrs to sort the school stuff out. how old were they when they could count to 10? just trying to compare my daughter to some clever, obviously well brought up children to see if I need to POOOSH her a bit more

counting to 10? 2 years old at the earliest, 3 more usually.

but as we all know they all progress at their own paces.....

[TightEnd]

Lazy spelling/punctuation is something that drives me bonkers. I am one of the most laid-back, easy-going guys you'll ever meet, but seeing people write 'could of', 'your an idiot' etc, without even realising that there's anything wrong gets me in a tizzy. I worked as a book editor for four years and spent endless hours having to correct the text of authors who, it would appear, hadn't even bothered to read what they'd written back to themselves, so obvious were the mistakes.

I have had to resist the urge to go through this thread and correct the spelling/punctuation of blondites' posts in which they are correcting someone else's post as it would make me appear to be the world's biggest pedant.

A stand must be made against today's feckless youth and, seeing as the powers that be won't let me do it with guns, I choose the apostrophe as my weapon 

*re-reads post ten times before pressing the Post button*

crikey, better concentrate 

[Trace]

Trace, I don't get why spelling well invoke 'pride' in anyone?

Maybe it's my age, maybe it's just me, maybe it's because it's one thing in life I know I am bloody good at. 

(Well there are other things too, but this is a good, clean, wholesome (?sp) site.   lol)

I don't know why I take pride in my ability to spell - I just do.  It's probably something I was praised for at Primary School that lurks in my subconsience, I do remember that at the age of around 9, I had a reading and spelling ability of a 13 year old.  Again I put this down to having a passion for reading.

[AdamM]

No richard, not you but it's a real fear for those of us that don't spell well. thank god (intentional small g, that's another controvertial thread for another day) for spell checkers. I've been in posted argument with people when the focus has turned to belittlin people for their spelling. It's a way for classically educated people to bully naturally intelligent but less educated people.
(you're not doing a good job of staying out of this one. good job though)

[ifm]

this has become a tough thread, my view on incorrect spelling is not that of intelligence, but of not applying oneself at school.
I understand this can be affected by many things, peer pressure, home life etc.
My eldest daughter is frighteningly intelligent, never had a grade below A and has been moved up classes at school, yet when we chat in MSN (i live alone) it's all slang and text talk and it drives me nuts (she knows this).
You can see intelligence in your posts, your spelling doesn't affect that.
I guess the fact that i didn't do as well at school as i should makes me feel all others should (i actually did very well at school just only bothered to go to 2 exams, oddly english and chemistry).

[AdamM]

I taught my 5 year old to count to 1000 today on the walk to school. Not by counting it in order but getting her to understand the pricipled of the decimal system. this is a much more important skill than spelling. in 500 years, we'll spell everything differently, dispite all the opinions currently held. we'll still could the same

[Trace]

Oh and btw - I only got my GCSE in English in June 2003.

The English teacher at High School was a moron, and due to his lack of interest/big headedness, and my downright laziness and boredom, I left High School without an English qualification.

So i retook it online with The Sheffield College and passed with an A.