Re: Earth to Obama

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Dinosaur Sr <frostback2...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jul 30, 6:16 am, Carbon <nob...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:22:34 -0700, Dinosaur Sr wrote:
On Jul 29, 9:47 pm, BAR <Sc...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Bobby Knight wrote:
On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:54:35 -0400, BAR <Sc...@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
John B. wrote:

Teachers, regardless of what they teach, should know
how
to
spell.

What should be done with a teacher, any teacher, any
one
involved
in academia who misspells a word? Beheading? Prison?
What?

Made to take remedial English at a nearby high school if
its
chronic.

It it didn't work the first time what makes you think it
is
going to
work a second time?

What if the person is an ace at English...ie there is more
to
language
than spelling? Anyone with a solid science background
would
probably
be an ace at English. I had an editor substitute the word
intimate
for
the word initiate because initiate wasn't in the
spellchecker
they
used. They changed the document and published it as such
without
checking with me. So much for advanced English, IMHO. It's
the
difference between knowing how to spell and knowing how to
use
language, but that's a concept far beyond the abilities of
someone
like Knight. For people like him, if it's spelled OK, it's
OK...and
if
the word isn't in the dictionary you are using, he doesn't
have
any
capability of understanding what it means.

Somehow I doubt that's what Bobby meant. Being able to spell
is
the
precondition for making sense in writing and is something
that
anyone
who wishes to teach should have mastered. Past that, you
have
to
know
what words mean, how to form them into coherent thoughts, et
cetera.-
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Being able to spell is one thing. Worrying about it with
respect
to
this sort of thing is quite another. Some of the scratching of
some
of
the best thinkers in history are in fact illegible to someone
like
you, but others have figured out what they say. Some are in
fact
dyslexic. Being able to think is one something, being able to
spell
much less. Actually spelling every word you write correctly is
of
no
real value. Of course some make great use of spellcheckers,
and
make
mistakes such as that I described earlier. pEdantic twits make
a
lot
of this sort of thing. A good means to ID them.

Dyslexia is a condition, really an illness, and that is
different.
We
are talking about sloppy English through simple laziness, and
there
is
not an excuse for it. And 'pEdantic twits" tend to know where
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There is a difference between laziness and knowing where to apply
your
time. With first drafts, I want to get the ideas on paper. I don't
care about spelling among other things. As for time, I don't spend
much time reviusing RSG posts. I have better things to do. Of
course
you are a pedantic twit whose rhetorical style is to constantly
beg
the question. You get away with it here because there is a
threashold
of particiapnts who lack the conciousness to see and understand
what
you are doing.

What are "reviusing" and "conciousness"? You just keep digging a
deeper
hole.

He's not digging a deeper hole. He's playing with you and you are too
arrogant to figure it out.

-Greg

Oh, right. Sure.

What happened to your 11:00 tee time?

Taking a break with the iPhone after 9.

So you tee off at 11:00 and at 1:50, two hours and fifty minutes later you
made it through nine holes of golf? You jumped on your iphone to check
Usenet?

You are incredible. Just not credible.

Actually, we ended up being able to tee off at 10:30, and were done in
just over 3:30. Walking threesome, play when you get to your ball. As
golf should be.
.

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