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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".
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.
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that this guy thinks this is a good idea. spelling correctly isn't particularly difficult, and anyone who misspells common words, especially the common words, IMHO, has some serious issues, and it says something uncomplimentary about the person's character.
"Use the spell-checker Luke! It's all around you!"
Spell a word wrong? Oh hey, what's that little red line underneath the word? huh, let's check it out. Oh hey! Whaddya know? "alot" isn't a word at all, is it? Huh, now I know!
And knowing is half the battle!
... or we could just give in to apathy. it's a slippery slope here people.
Oh right, one more thing: not knowing how to spell words, unless you're talking about really difficult, uncommon ones, makes you look really, really stupid. Even if you're not, otherwise.
Practical example. You apply for a job. If your resume or cover letter has even a single misspelled word, and the person reading your docs picks up on it, chances are good your resume gets tossed. If nothing else, it says you're not detail oriented and gives an impression of incompetence. Not exactly an impression anyone wants to give.
Okay, all done ranting.