[SaveTheChief]

In a former lifetime I was an orchestra teacher. My first job was teaching in an outreach program of a full time professional orchestra in the South. I essentially went to several inner city and suburban schools each week teaching beginners how to play stringed instruments. The director of the program wrote her own method book and insisted that the teachers in the program use it. This book was not published. It was sloppily hand-written. She had it copied and cheaply bound at Kinko's, and charged students additional money for it.

In her method, she used an entirely different form of notation based on numbers and dashes to represent fingers on the strings and length of notes. In fact, the method didn't even use any common musical terms. This was to be used for at least a year or more. By the time the students got to reading real musical notation, they had no idea what to do with it. My argument against that method is that if you are going to teach children some sort of notation, you should probably teach them the one the rest of the world uses.

As my former college adviser once said, "Kids are young. They aren't dumb."

We're dumbing down our society if we continue allowing the least common denominator to decide how we live.

[NavyCanDo]

Don’t get me wrong - I’m not jumping on this band wagon do “dumb-down” our way of spelling, but it is interesting how the human mind can read even horribly misspelled words, and do so quite efficiently.

This floated around the internet awhile back.

Cna yuo raed tihs?

I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno’t mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

[raybbr]

Hey my six year old Kindergartener does a pretty good job. (This was a math equation that he had to "draw")

[montag813]

Why would someone want to destroy such a great and fascinating language?

[Condor51]

National Spelling Bee Brings Out Protesters Who R Thru With Through

In the world of Architectural Drafting (construction blue prints) we've been using 'Thru' at least since the 1970's.

There isn't a lot of extra room on a 42"x30" print for notes so anything that can be abbreviated, is. This still holds true even with CAD. You can only make the font size so small before its useless in the field (construction site).

But for Formal / Proper use in English spelling .. fugetaboutit. (/s)

NO to Ebonics and NO to 'Thru'.

[MovementConservative]

Hooray! I would also like to nominate the letter C for extinction from the alphabet. It serves no great purpose and wouldn’t be missed by anyone under the age of 30.

[RightWhale]

Speling reform is short-sited. We wud loos haf duh meenings we hav left.

[mysterio]

In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.

[Hatteras]

GO AWAY! LEAVE US ALONE!!!

[antiunion person]

Tis grup of peeple has wey two much time on there hands.

[Vaquero]

It is a damn poor mind indeed which can’t think of at least two ways to spell any word. - - Andrew Jackson

[GladesGuru]

“Spelling Reform” - isn’t that just what educrats are trying to get away with in the publik skools?

Students can spel as they want, so nobody feels that they have failed.

[SunkenCiv]

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[Gamecock]

My daughter was a participant last year.

The same yo-yos were out there then. I thanked them for their role in dumbing down America.

[Don Corleone]

A fyoo duhzen ambishuhss intelectchooals, a handful ov British skool teechers and wuhn rokit siuhntist ar triing to chang the way we spel.

These idiots would have had an orgasm reading the old (Col.McCormick) Chicago Tribune. You old time Chicagoans remember don't you?

[Titan Magroyne]

self ping

[AnimalLover]

bump

[Drawsing]

Note to everybody: “Looser” is pronounced with a hard “s” sound and is what happens when you untie your shoes, unzip your pants, take off your tie, or take a laxative. “Loser” is a person who tends to fail at everything.

[metesky]

Ben Franklin and Noah Webster tried it too. How’d it work out?

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

Spelling reform is currently enjoying a renaissance

Actually, tenured spelling Luddites are the ones enjoying. Renaissance Men and Women need to step up and thwack these fascist faddists about the head and shoulders with a series of unabridged dictionaries and thesauri.



From post 46 it appears that raybbr has quite a perceptive six year old with a genius for visual counterpropaganda (grin) ... (The kid gets it!)







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