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AAAARGHHHH
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/754697...546975.stm
-.-
*throws things*
01:27 - Thu-7-Aug-2008 - post a comment
Oh for pete's sake...
It starts with 'accepted variants' and ends with university students writing theories that start "Well i fink dat gravity works lyk dis..."
If you are teaching children the English language, what's so bloody hard about teaching them to spell?? Next thing you know they'll be forsaking the use of all punctuation except the full stop, comma, exclamation and question marks. They'll be letting kids off for not using capital letters, or paragraph breaks, or vowels.
*joins Pixeh in throwing things*Twist - 01:42 - Thu-7-Aug-2008
I like dictionaries. 'Punishment' at my primary school for being naughty was staying in at break and copying out the dictionary from certain letters. It made being naughty more fun.
Twist - 01:49 - Thu-7-Aug-2008
I'm an abysmal speller and even I think that idea is just plain stupid.
sarai - 02:06 - Thu-7-Aug-2008
My comment on the site:
I'd love to know what his colleagues (or 'kolleegs', if you will) in the English department think of this.
Besides, I'd have thought attention to detail would be an important factor in Criminology...bebbet - 03:20 - Thu-7-Aug-2008
Hey..don't look at me. I kan speel jest fiyn, thancke yuu verry muck.
texican - 04:11 - Thu-7-Aug-2008
*curls up into a ball and shivers in a cloud of pixie dust* cold... sooo cold....
WelshPixie - 04:12 - Thu-7-Aug-2008
*claps hands furiously* I DO believe in Pixehs, I do I do I DO believe in Pixehs!
Twist - 04:57 - Thu-7-Aug-2008
WTF?
*releases spelling nazis into the world*
There. :) All better.lunarfruity - 06:04 - Thu-7-Aug-2008
Worse, My education courses are suggesting the very same thing with the addition of acceptable use of "Spanglish" in any papers in classes along the Mexico border.
Puleeze! Da me a break!etainne - 07:57 - Thu-7-Aug-2008
What a horrifying thing to see on the news. There you are, innocently drinking coffee and perhaps munching something tasty, when WHAM "bad grammar is good!".
lunarfruity - 07:57 - Thu-7-Aug-2008
Purists will always be dismayed at what they consider "proper" use of words, spelling, and language, being misused.
Words change and evolve over the course of time. Some words are forgotten and new ones emerge.
Even what we consider the English language is far different today than the "old" English.
English is a difficult language to learn for many reasons. Double meanings of the same word, exceptions to rules like the i and e.
and pronouncing sh, th, ch, wh, not to mention tense.
For those of us, like myself, who have been educated formally and in the strict old school way, spelling and word use is more of a stickler. My mom actually winces when someone uses the wrong, or let me say "improper" language.
I don't really have an issue with Mr. Smith and his proposal.
He isn't really unleashing total chaos but simply setting out certain words that might be excused from typical spelling errors.
This reminds me of an argument I had with my family about when to use a comma after the "s" rather than before the "s".
How many angels can fit on the head of a pin?
Who knows? Who cares?
What came first the chicken or the egg?
Who decided to call it an "egg" and then put two "g"s on it?
Jeeps
File this under "unresolved questions for the Twilight Zone".
more about etymology
http://www.westegg.com/etymology/jeeps - 06:42 - Fri-8-Aug-2008
My daughter can't spell to save her life...she gets it from her uncle.
texican - 06:48 - Fri-8-Aug-2008
theres two more. were a five legged beast.
tex is the dangly part.birdsnest - 01:59 - Sat-9-Aug-2008
FROOT LOOPS!!! IT'S ALL BECAUSE OF FROOT LOOPS, I TELL YOU! THEY GET YOU WHILE YOU'RE YOUNG! IF A FUCKING TOUCAN SELLS IT, IT MUST BE OKAY!
also:
"*releases spelling nazis into the world*"
Once again, the nazis save the day. Wait... that doesn't sound right.thedietcokeofevil - 05:58 - Sat-9-Aug-2008
Another item ripped from the bbc news!
The semi-colon may be dying?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008...shidentity
excerpt;
If you really want to hurt your parents, and you don't have the nerve to be a homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts. But do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites, standing for absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.
Kurt Vonnegutjeeps - 09:18 - Sat-9-Aug-2008
Birdy, that's the smartest thing i've ever heard you say.
Except in the sense that Kurt Vonnegut was a devout atheist (I love that phrase).
Still, yeah. Vonnegut. If I ever have two sons, I want to name them Kurt and Mark (after Vonnegut and Twain, respectively.)thedietcokeofevil - 03:55 - Sun-10-Aug-2008
hence the irony.
he didnt believe in himself.
thats not a bad idea. vonnegut wouldnt make a good first name though.birdsnest - 04:12 - Sun-10-Aug-2008
you could always go with the original spelling, Funnegut which they changed because in the American accent it sounded too much like Funny Gut.
Yep. I read a couple Vonnegut books.thedietcokeofevil - 05:42 - Sun-10-Aug-2008
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Oh bollokcs. tHere si noe resaon for badd spelink.
dantesinferno - 01:39 - Thu-7-Aug-2008