Anurag Kashyap with the winner's cup at the 2005 U.S. National Spelling Bee
Posted on 05/11/2006 12:22:04 PM PDT by Incorrigible
Eye kin spill just fien.
Kewl!
Anurag Kashyap with the winner's cup at the 2005 U.S. National Spelling Bee
It's too late. I'm already here! :-)
Pnig.
Spelling okay
This is a great thing! Heretofore all our spectator entertainment has been dollar-soaked quiz shows, multi million dollar sports prima donnas jumping around a playing field and various other pointless and non-edifying spectacles.
At last we can view role models, albeit young ones, that can push our thoughts and ambitions in a more productive direction.
I know I'm going to be ridiculed here. I'm always funniest when I try to be serious.
The spieling police? R u cereal? FR say dis spieling be okay. U gotta problem, spieling police?
That is exactly what I was going to post. But you got it at Post #2. u ar quik!
It is all about self-esteem in our government run, socialistic educational system; not, individual academic excellence.
I was a spelling bee habitue through my public-school years. My mother says they were hair-raising for her, but I seemed to like 'em just fine.
(For the curious, the furthest I ever got was in sixth grade, where I took fifth in state.)
I'll admit that I am a spelling snob. I am NOT a good speller. I have never been a good speller. However, the importance of spelling correctly and the perception it gives is something I did learn. I have a Follett Vest-Pocket 50,000 Words Divided and Spelled right here by the computer. I use it a lot along with a dictionary. Most of the time I am looking at a word that I actually did spell correctly but for some reason it looks wrong.
I cannot stand getting letters from "professionals" with obvious spelling errors. Do these folks not even have someone proof their work before it goes out? In my case the letters have come from teachers and pastors and it is just horrifying.
Now, I can't wait for my children to get old enough to diagram sentences so I can relearn some sentence structures that I have forgotten also.
I know first hand, working in the public school system here: Whole Language Curriculum has ruined our children, Spiral Math Curriculum has done the same with math!
European Union's Official Language
New EC Regulations
The European Commission have just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the EU rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in plan that would be known as "EuroEnglish": --
In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c".. Sertainly, this will make the sivil sevants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favor of the "k". This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have 1 less letter.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with the "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20% shorter.
In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent "e"'s in the language is disgraceful, and they should go away.
By the 4th yar, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v". During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaiining "ou" and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.
After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer.
ZE DREM VIL FINALI KUM TRU!!
A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling
by Mark Twain
For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with "i" and Iear 4 might fiks the "g/j" anomali wonse and for all.
Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez -- tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivli.
Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.
http://jewel.morgan.edu/~salimian/humor/humor_046.html
There are many skills that have been critical to prospering over the course of the existence of mankind. These include hunting, tracking, farming, weather forecasting, fighting off attackers, etc. Most of these have declined in importance with the advancement of society. Not every person needs to be able to sew their own clothes, or grow their own food, or fight indians.
Spelling, at one time, was a critical skill to communicating effectively. Using a PC, spelling is less important. Creating an intelligent final product is far more important. Spelling is only important in support of this goal. One, who is not a great speller, can still create intelligent documents if he knows how to effectively use technology. The effective use of technology may be a more valuable skill that the basic skill of spelling.
Einstein may have been a genius, but I bet I could clean his clock when it comes to writing SQL. What is considered important is constantly changing.
An average writer who can make great use of a web site, search engines, site links, and other communications technology will likely be able to communicate with millions more people than a great writer with NO technological skills.
This would be a great one to start with.....
Did it run on that long?
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