Re: Propper Englesh

"Rosemary" <mentally_subnormal@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:Xns9AF863D8C1F3Brosemaryharkerhotmai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"CJ Dunnaway" <cj_dunnaway-news@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycod
e=403092&c=1

A British educator has proposed that schools stop penalizing students
for such misspellings as "truely," "speach," "arguement" and
"opertunity" rather than continue "beating ourselves and our students
up over this problem."

You're sounding more American every day. Next you'll be listening to
cRap music.

That's been all over the news here for a couple of days. I don't care how
people spell in letters and emails and on newsgroups, but I think if it's
something like a professional or commercial document, a book or
newspaper, an essay or anything else like that, then it's rude to not
bother checking the spellings. I can't read as quickly if the spellings
are wrong because I tend to read by glancing at the shape of a word
rather than by sounding out the letters and reading each word
individually. If the author wants me to read what he's written, then why
should I be the one to make all the effort to decipher it? There was an
interview on the TV news with a fellow advocating allowing misspellings,
a woman who was against it, and the presenter. The woman was saying that
she wouldn't employ anyone whose CV had incorrect spellings in it, and
the bloke gleefully recited a list of people who by that criterion,
wouldn't have got a job with her, including Einstein and Churchill. Well,
okay - maybe he's right, and all those people couldn't spell. But I'm
sure they would give enough of a *** to check their spelling in a
dictionary, or have friends check their CVs. Incorrect spelling on a CV
IMO just shows that you don't want the job enough to make sure you've
done the CV right.

Rosemary
Hi, Rosemary. You're preaching to the choir. I personally think it's lazy and makes people seem stupid - even if they are neither. If you're chatting with your pals that's one thing - but when you're writing at work or school it's another.

I think literacy is below average here in the states, but it seems to be worse among the younger generations (my children write very poorly). Capitalization and punctuation also seem to be lacking, as well as sentence and paragraph structure (no offense intended). :)

CJ

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