[NY Attitude]

"2. none of us spell very well anymore because of computers."

You're assessment maybe correct if you are addressing the students of the "flower power" generation and their children. But for my generation, it was a requirement that you knew how to spell, do arithmetic manually and parse sentences correctly before being advanced to the next grade. Just because Johnny was 16 and still in fifth grade did not cut it. In other words, he was not advanced until he got it right

[drhogan]

the computer things was the artist's excuse for her bad spelling.
i was paraphrasing what she said.
my impression is that she just isn't very bright, is a bad speller, and doesn't even realize that it is a problem to mispell "Einstein" on a library mural.

[Ichneumon]

You're assessment maybe correct if you are addressing the students of the "flower power" generation and their children. But for my generation, it was a requirement that you knew how to spell, do arithmetic manually and parse sentences correctly before being advanced to the next grade.

*cough*... :-)