Academic Says We Should Give Up on Correct Spelling

Fed up with his students inabillity to spel korrectly, Ken Smith, a criminology lecturer at Bucks New University, has purposed an inovative solution, not caring. "Instead of complaining about the state of the education system as we correct the same mistakes year after year, I've got a better idea. University teachers should simply accept as variant spelling those words our students most commonly misspell.", Ken wrote in the Times Higher Education Supplement. Some of the new wurds that Ken thinks we shood axxept include: "ignor," "occured," "thier," "truely," "speach", "twelth", "misspelt", and "varient".

Comments

What a grate idea

[denis-The-menace]

wit so mani homonames out thier, it mite be to hard to phollo peeples tots. I meen, one persons' tea is a leter and an other is a hot drinc.

it could get ouda hand. if U tink metrik and umperial masuments snaphus R bad, imagine gettin en castrated for pretty theff.

Re:What a grate idea

[Apache]

To kwote the artikle:

"Rather than grammarians getting in a huff about "argument" being spelled "arguement" or "opportunity" as "opertunity," why not accept anything that's phonetically (fonetickly anyone?) correct as long as it can be understood? ...
University teachers should simply accept as variant spelling those words our students most commonly misspell.",

(emphisis added)

So, the sugestion is to only alow "comon" speling mistakes that make fonetik sence. So, a mispeling of a homonim that does not reflekt the corekt sound would not be alowed. For exampel, "tots" as used wod not be alowed as it doesnot reflekt the 'th' sound in the spokan word.

This could eventualy result in homonims being spelt the same way as nonfonetic spellings would fall into disuse. I'm not convinsed of a necesity for words with difrent meanings but the same sound to be speled difrent; This is not an ideografic langwij after all.