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'Enuf is enuf': Protesters in bee suits outside Spelling Bee want to make English simpler
FOXNews.com ^
| June 4, 2010
| Associated Press
Posted on 06/04/2010 8:07:31 AM PDT by metmom
WASHINGTON (AP) The nation's capital always draws its share of protesters, picketing for causes ranging from health care reform to immigration policy.
But spelling bee protesters? They're out here, too.
Four peaceful protesters, some dressed in full-length black and yellow bee costumes, represented the American Literacy Council and the London-based Spelling Society and stood outside the Grand Hyatt on Thursday, where the Scripps National Spelling Bee is being held. Their message was short: Simplify the way we spell words.
Roberta Mahoney, 81, a former Fairfax County, Va. elementary school principal, said the current language obstructs 40 percent of the population from learning how to read, write and spell.
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TOPICS: Education; Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: arth; spellingbee
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Simple. Educate the kids instead of indoctrinate them and they'd learn to read, write, and spell just fine.
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posted on
06/04/2010 8:07:31 AM PDT
by
metmom
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posted on
06/04/2010 8:08:24 AM PDT
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: Tigerized
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posted on
06/04/2010 8:09:44 AM PDT
by
bootless
(Never Forget. Never Again. (PursuingLiberty.com))
To: metmom
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posted on
06/04/2010 8:10:04 AM PDT
by
Dallas59
(President Robert Gibbs 2009-2013)
To: metmom
Don’t homeschooled kids dominate these things?
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posted on
06/04/2010 8:10:10 AM PDT
by
whattajoke
(Let's keep Conservatism real.)
To: metmom
So because there are stupid illiterates out there, our school system should be (further) dumbed down?
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posted on
06/04/2010 8:11:28 AM PDT
by
Grunthor
To: whattajoke
They tend to be over represented.
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posted on
06/04/2010 8:12:03 AM PDT
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: metmom
You can only remove my Merriam-Websters Unabridged 2nd Edition from my cold, dead hand ... and my compact OED from my other cold, dead arm.
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posted on
06/04/2010 8:12:13 AM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics)
To: metmom
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posted on
06/04/2010 8:12:17 AM PDT
by
mnehring
To: metmom
I swear, I thought this was a satirical article. Public school teachers have been miserable failures teaching the nation's children to read and to spell, so they want to "dumb down" the language, rather than educate to a standard that has been in existence for two centuries.
It's pathetic.
To: bootless
More like “paging Teddy Roosevelt”.
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posted on
06/04/2010 8:12:53 AM PDT
by
SJSAMPLE
To: metmom
phonetic spelling obliterates word geneology. It destroys the meaning. Literate people can tell if a word has Latin, French, or Olde English roots - this adds texture and meaning to our lives...
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posted on
06/04/2010 8:13:46 AM PDT
by
olepap
(God help us)
To: metmom
English IS at times a crazy language, but let’s not dumb it down to the level of texting and rap “music”.
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posted on
06/04/2010 8:13:59 AM PDT
by
libertylover
(The problem with Obama is not that his skin is too black, it's that his ideas are too RED.)
To: metmom
Maybee thay hav uh poynt. exsept for thuh fact that Ehneetheeng rittin beefor thee implehmentayshun uv this eyedeeuh wood bee az hard too reed az Chowser, thayr iz noe disadvantij.
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posted on
06/04/2010 8:17:15 AM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics)
To: metmom
Gee, it
didn't used to obstruct "...40 percent of the population from learning how to read..."
But now, everything is just so hard and so unFAIR.
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posted on
06/04/2010 8:17:56 AM PDT
by
Let's Roll
(Stop paying ACORN to destroy America! Cut off their federal funding!)
To: olepap
y iz “phonetic” spelt with a “PH”?
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posted on
06/04/2010 8:18:06 AM PDT
by
absolootezer0
(2x divorced, tattooed, pierced, harley hatin, meghan mccain luvin', smoker and pit bull owner..what?)
To: olepap
Precisely. Phonetic spelling is about separating words from meaning. By defining words by their sounds, you remove that connection between word and meaning.
And who gets to define phonetics, either? Some people pronounce “better” as “betah”, others more like “butter”. Whose spelling would be right?
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posted on
06/04/2010 8:18:53 AM PDT
by
JenB
To: Dr. Sivana
theyr luzrs. (Intentionally mis-spelled)
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posted on
06/04/2010 8:20:12 AM PDT
by
rickb308
(Muslims need to check with Native Americans & ask how that whole cowboys & indians thing worked out.)
To: JenB
And who gets to define phonetics, either? Some people pronounce better as betah, others more like butter. Whose spelling would be right?
the department of newspeak of course.
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posted on
06/04/2010 8:20:25 AM PDT
by
absolootezer0
(2x divorced, tattooed, pierced, harley hatin, meghan mccain luvin', smoker and pit bull owner..what?)
To: absolootezer0
The ‘F’ key was broken on the typewriter of the guy who invented the term...
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posted on
06/04/2010 8:22:16 AM PDT
by
SAJ
(Zerobama? A phony and a prick, ergo a dildo.)
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