SHEESH!

[JPSmit]

I will have to admit, I wish this place had a spell check feature.

I have a spelling checker It came with my PC. It plane lee marks four my revue Miss steaks aye can knot see.
Eye ran this poem threw it. Your sure real glad two no. Its very polished in its weigh, My checker tolled me sew.

A checker is a blessing. It freeze yew lodes of thyme. It helps me right awl stiles two reed, And aides me when aye rime.

Each frays comes posed up on my screen Eye trussed too bee a joule. The checker pours o'er every word To cheque sum spelling rule.

Bee fore a veiling checkers Hour spelling mite decline, And if we're laks oar have a laps, We wood bee maid too wine.

Butt now bee cause my spelling Is checked with such grate flare, There are know faults with in my cite, Of nun eye am a wear.

Now spelling does not phase me, It does knot bring a tier. My pay purrs awl due glad den With wrapped words fare as hear.

To rite with care is quite a feet Of witch won should be proud, And wee mussed dew the best wee can, Sew flaws are knot aloud.

Sow ewe can sea why aye dew prays Such soft wear four pea seas, And why eye brake in two averse Buy righting want too please.

 

[Gliderman8]

That was an assult on my eyes John-Peter

 

[Mickey Richaud]

Reminds me of a guy I saw being interviewed once, who wanted to eliminate all standards of common spelling as it "inhibited the natural creativity of children in finding solutions to the unknown". Meaning I guess, let them spell any way each one wanted...

What that the basis for the "alternate language" they tried to launch 15-20 years ago in urban areas?


I will have to admit, I wish this place had a spell check feature.

If you use Fire Fox it does spell check as you type. Other Browsers probably have similar capabilities.

 

[martx-5]

When you read more books, you get to see how words are spelled, and if you read enough, it will eventually sink in.

I actually find things harder to read when there are misspelled words in the text. When I type stuff and go back over it, I can see the misspelled words, but don't always know how to correct it. Sometimes I have to try a couple of iterations to get it right. Of course, now that I have Firefox, the spell check alerts me right away, and I can then pick from the list supplied. That does make things easier.

But, the real answer is to read more books.

Also, one thing about the German language, there are strict rules regarding spelling and pronunciation. Once you learn them, you can look a a word in German, even if you don't know what it means, and will be able to pronounce it correctly by it's spelling...unless there is an umlaut in the word. Proper pronunciation with those things is a bit tricky. I always stumbled on that. :laugh:

Let's not even discuss French. As beautiful as that language is to hear, the printed word bears no resemblance to how it's pronounced. :hammer:

 

[JPSmit]

Also, one thing about the German language, there are strict rules regarding spelling and pronunciation. Once you learn them, you can look a a word in German, even if you don't know what it means, and will be able to pronounce it correctly by it's spelling...unless there is an umlaut in the word. Proper pronunciation with those things is a bit tricky. I always stumbled on that. :laugh:

OK you gave me the opening - this is so politically incorrect I can't even begin to describe it but it's been on my mind since this thread started

The New European Language!!!

The European Union commissioners have announced that agreement has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications, 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 five-year phased plan for what will be known as EuroEnglish (Euro for short).

In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c." Sertainly, sivil servants will resieve this news with joy. Also, the hard "c" will be replaced with "k". Not only will this klear up konfusion, but typewriters kan have one less letter.

There will be growing publik emthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced by "f". This will make words like fotograf" 20 persent shorter.

In the third 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 silent "e"s in the languag is disgrasful, and they would go.

By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" by "z" and "w" by " v".

During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "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.

 

[JPSmit]

When you read more books, you get to see how words are spelled, and if you read enough, it will eventually sink in.

I actually find things harder to read when there are misspelled words in the text.

On a much more serious note, this research fascinates me

In a letter to New Scientist in the 29 May 1999 issue Graham Rawlinson commented on research [1] by Kourosh Saberi and David Perrott and illustrated how randomising letters in the middle of words has little effect on its understandability.

His research for a PhD at Nottingham University had shown that skilled readers could read and understand entire pages filled with text in which letters within words had been swapped around.

He demonstrated this with the following paragraphs in his letter:

"This is easy to denmtrasote. In a puiltacibon of New Scnieitst you could ramdinose all the letetrs, keipeng the first two and last two the same, and reibadailty would hadrly be aftcfeed. My ansaylis did not come to much beucase the thoery at the time was for shape and senqeuce retigcionon. Saberi's work sugsegts we may have some pofrweul palrlael prsooscers at work.

The resaon for this is suerly that idnetiyfing coentnt by paarllel prseocsing speeds up regnicoiton. We only need the first and last two letetrs to spot chganes in meniang.

This was not easy to type!"
This fascinating observation and illustration subsequently did the rounds as an internet e-mail FW: favourite.

[1] Saberi and Perrott of the California Institute of Technology broke spoken sentences into 50-millisecond segments and found that if they reversed each segment and strung them all together in the order of the original sentence listeners would still understand what was being said.

 

[Silverghost]

I wish what I am about to say wasn't true or didn't happen, but it did.

My wife and I are foster/adpotive parents and have a brother and sister who are African-American. At a meeting at the local public school to discuss their special needs, we were told by the speech therapist that "now that we know they live in a white household, we will work on correct pronounciation and grammar. In the CPS system, there is African-American Dialect and that is an acceptable speech pattern - axe vs ask, things of that sort."

My wife and I were dumbfounded. After the meeting we looked at each other and said "Did you hear what I THINK I heard?" and we had both heard the same thing.

Sad but true...... :frown:

 

[DrEntropy]

...At a meeting at the local public school...

Kinda says a lot. :shocked: