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To: PCPOET7

How did these countries rate on spelling?


23 posted on 05/17/2015 9:33:43 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Doctrine doesn't change. The trick is to find a way around it.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

“How did these countries rate on spelling?”

Funny you should mention that. In a lot of languages, there is no such thing as a “spelling bee”, because that language has no hidden sounds and all “spelling” is predictable. So, if you hear it spoken and pronounced properly, you can spell it. A language professsor in that language and a 5th grader would battle to a draw. I learned this when I was working on a spelling checker in an Eastern European language and soon realized that it wasn’t a spelling checker, it was a typo checker.


25 posted on 05/17/2015 9:41:37 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day".)
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To: Jeff Chandler

sorry for the typos. I have dyslexia so its hard for me to see my mistakes in spelling


29 posted on 05/17/2015 10:39:29 PM PDT by PCPOET7 (BUT MAK)
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