Many Freepers who hate “spelling police” here are ecstatic about this! We’ve got a socialist as president and soon we’ll all speak Nadsat and Cubs Fan and others will be happy.
Typical dumbing down of our educational requirements.
But in a way - I can see this as necessary for journalists. They are rapidly becoming the stupidest more ignorant ass-bites ever in our society. They already can’t think or even write clearly and objectively.
So why should they learn to spell?
And that's just the tip of the iceberg. Those failures seem to be rampant amongst "journalists" these days.
I have a spelling checker
It came with my PC
It highlights for my review
Mistakes I cannot sea.
I ran this poem thru it
I'm sure your pleased to no
Its letter perfect in it's weigh
My checker told me sew.
I don’t mind poor spelling nearly as much as biased reporting. If only “Journalists” could tell a story, presenting ALL the facts, and let the reader draw their own conclusion.
Wow.
I just hafe ono werdz to deescryb myne thots
They need to replace the test with a test on the use of there, their and they’re. Does anyone under 30 know the distinction? The only challenge to the internet supremacy of porn may be the misuse of “their”.
They gave up on journalism long ago.
Now they’re giving up on spelling too?
Based upon the articles I’ve been reading lately this is needed now more than ever.
Spell check technology is pretty good but in my experience the grammer checkers are still just awful.
Technology in the hands of gorillas promises to be amusing.
The school will altar the test in the fell for the fist time since the tests creationism in the 1970s
*snicker*
Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore too long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.
The spell checker at work is on by default which is a pain because Herat, Afghanistan is always automatically changed to “Heart” in messages, documents and spreadsheets. That’s just one example. We’ve turned it off but I still see it from other people. How many other foreign words will get changed and no one notices?
Two bee oar knot too be ...
With the time the free up from not giving spelling tests, they can spend more time for testing ideological purity.
No tes’ is a good fing, ‘coz if ya jes’ sits down to ya ‘puter and looks at soma them blogs about what ya wanna rite about, tha’s alls what ya need ta do. Gitcher infermachon fum blogs. Yeah.
Mrs WBill teaches a class for teachers. One of the things that her students need to do is track their in-class hours. I double check their math for my wife, because a) she hates math and 2) I can add long strings of numbers in my head, quickly. 'Tis one of the bennies of being an engineer.
Anyhoo, I'd guess that 6 out of 10 of her students get the addition wrong. And, we're not talking differential calculus, here, we're talking 1+3+2+1+4+1+1....and so on.
I'd also guess that 1 in 4 can't tell time. They'll count an 8:00 to noon shift as 5 hours. I know how it happens (count on your fingers 8,9,10,11,12) but I never cease to be amazed.
These are the teachers people leave their kids with at day care. It's also why Mrs WBill and I agreed that she'd stay home with the kids and only teach a class or two for fun.