[B4Ranch]

I will slide a little on grammar but I am strict on spelling. I tend to judge someones intelligence on how well they can spell. Make too many errors and I will stop reading. I don’t give fools much of my time.

Come at me with Ebonics and I leave the area. I refuse to tolerate that nonsense.

[GingisK]

I tend to judge someones intelligence on how well they can spell.

Spelling is not an indicator of intelligence. It is an indicator of specialized memory. Intelligence is indicated by problem solving ability in a void of previous knowledge of the problem.

[tophat9000]

I wouldn't correlate intelligence and spelling.... spelling originally was a phonetic encoding of the spoken word..the sounds made.... not unlike written music.... if you look at the great written of say Thomas Jefferson the spelling is quite fluid and not fixed.

I do believe it was Webster that introduced the concept of fixed spellings irrelevant of the actual sounds

Then you get in the debate between using phonics to spell and what they call the whole word system

When I went to school there were in transition between the two .. I never got phonetics but then its not necessarily correct either way since now we do a fix spelling

Then add in the fact that I'm Dyslexic...

I was was at the top of my class the entire time in school in reading comprehension and always a bottom the class in spelling..

My spelling is abysmal and always has been

The only thing that save me nowadays is spell check

[piytar]

I used to review resumes for a large business where I was on the hiring committee. Two spelling errors meant that the resume went into the circular file (trash).