Posted on 06/29/2004 8:21:41 PM PDT by Spellfix
I am new to your forum, a spelling bee protester just getting around to answering some comments posted June 3 here: http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1146693/post My actual remarks are under Comment. Please email me if I'm putting the comment where the thread should be or vice versa. ramole@aol.com
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.
Mark Twain
Welcome to FR. You may have picked the wrong forum though. Many of us here are fluent in that wonderful old "universal language" of Esperanto.
Who are these people who are illiterate? How many of them are citizens who have attended 12 years of public schooling? I'd be willing to bet the majority are illegal immigrants and children of illegal immigrants. The next largest group would probably be urban black kids to whom learning means acting white.
Then, of course, we do have people with language disabilities. THIS group is the only group which has trouble with the difficulty of the language itself. Such a large change for the population as a whole to accomodate a very small group of people is simply ridiculous.
LOL. I wondered how long before this would start showing up on FR:') This is a joke, right? This is how the spelling challenged already write. They come out of high school this way. Those in prison that don't read well probably spell this way also. All you are doing is telling them it's ok. This is just another dumbing down idea, IMO.
Self-esteem is a fraud perpetrated at intolerable cost to the normal majority. Excellence will always be with us. You cannot and should not bring everyone else down to feel better.
In my lifetime I have worked with excellent professionals who were either dyslexic or otherwise unable to spell even the most ordinary often used words. They did not focus on redefining normal. They simply excelled at what they could do and allowed someone else to deal with the spelling. In other words, they accepted their limitations, and did not attempt to persecute others to appear normal.
eyem knot rilly cleer awn tha perpuss uv this psot...
Ebonics 4 de masses.
A just damn candidate if I ever did see one.
The Georgia peach said, "When my first child was born, my husband built this beautiful mansion for me."
The lady from Mississippi commented. "Well, isn't that nice."
The first woman continued, "When my second child was born, my husband bought me that fine Cadillac you see parked in the drive."
Again, the belle from Mississippi commented, "Well, isn't that nice."
The first woman boasted, "Then, when my third child was born, my husband bought me this exquisite diamond bracelet."
Yet again, the second of the ladies commented, "Well, isn't that nice."
The first woman then asked her companion, "What did your husband buy for you when you had your first child?"
"My husband sent me to charm school," declared the Mississippi belle.
"Charm school!?!?!", the first woman cried, "Land sakes, child, what on earth for?"
The Mississippian responded, "So that instead of saying 'Who gives a shit' I learned to say, 'Well, isn't that nice.'"
I sympathize with the child for whom it seems an insuperable barrier to complete social intercourse, but for that child a carefully chosen vocabulary, properly employed, is no more difficult to master than common sums are when compared to integral calculus. It is the function of pedagogy to offer the child these subsets of overall vocabulary - for English, in excess of 100,000 words - in increasingly challenging forms until his or her needs are met. Forcing one mold on all is laziness; forcing too small a mold on all is cruelty.
Yeah. What you said.
Just wait until they get their grubbies on fractions....and move well away from airports.
Is this the best and brightest that the NEA can do?
Dumb down spelling?
Illiterate prison inmates are just too dam lazy to be bothered with learning to read, write or speak coherently for the simple fact that their lives revolved around short cuts.
Short cuts is what put 95% of inmates in prison to begin with.
And here you are offering another.
You are an enabler of illiteracy and a small thinker.
And one more thing, WHAT MAKES YOU THINK WE CARE HOW THEY DO ANYTHING IN EUROPE!
Man, people would picket an effing rock if they thought it would give them some TV face time.
Go away.
Quickly.
Or I shall be forced to dine upon you.
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u ned two bee moore care full wif yur spillin.
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