Can anybody spell anymore?

[M.D. Holloway]

perhaps it is because we have left the universe which revolves around TABS and entered one of less tolerance and more cynasism...

[red-beard]

Originally Posted by tabs

I thought this was going to be another rant about my own inability to spell correctly. I was then going to appeal to the Liberal sense of compassion and sympathy by proclaiming my own victim hood as having been educated in the CA school system.

And I bet you can't add, because of "New Math".

[widebody911]

a n y m o r e

[Taz's Master]

Originally Posted by love911

Maybe its because of this:

slepling cnutos

[targa911S]

Originally Posted by widebody911

a n y m o r e

been done. you copied from him. ;-)

[JJ 911SC]

Originally Posted by Mark Henry

... Imagine if doctors and engineers worked to the same standards.

You would be dead in a nicely design (useless) hospital

[JJ 911SC]

Originally Posted by BGCarrera32

It never fails to amaze me how me people ask for "advise" on this forum instead of asking for advice.

... Shouldn't the vice part be a given if you own a Porsche

[wcc]

I'm an engineer, so know...... Lol! Actually I think I spell pretty good considering...

[Crowbob]

Victim-hood, Tabs. 'Victim-hood'.

[DARISC]

Originally Posted by scottmandue

Know whey!

Yes! And, at the very leased, recognize curds!

[tabs]

Originally Posted by red-beard

And I bet you can't add, because of "New Math".

I might not be able to add but I can count up to 21 on my fingers and toes.

[JJ 911SC]

Originally Posted by tabs

I might not be able to add but I can count up to 21 on my fingers and toes.

I can do 23 with my hands in my pockets

[Mark Henry]

Originally Posted by red-beard

And I bet you can't add, because of "New Math".

How else would I know that my car is 31 drinking straws long....close enough...I still pass.

[slow&rusty]

"Sh.....Cool"

[Christien]

Originally Posted by wcc

I'm an engineer, so know...... Lol! Actually I think I spell pretty good considering...

Well, your grammar sure leaves a lot to be desired. You should think you spell pretty WELL, not good.

[Christien]

Originally Posted by LubeMaster77

...cynasism...

Cynicism.

[crb07]

Speed dial and spell check eliminates the need for us to know how to spell or memorize phone numbers. Technology is making us stupid.

[Christien]

I hear that all the time, but I've grown up with technology and spell checkers. I've used word processors with spell checkers since I was 10 years old, and I've got excellent spelling and grammar. When we're proofing our advertising, I'm always the one that's correcting spelling and grammar.

I think many people are too quick to blame technology, when really it's just laziness.

Spell checkers are good for typos - things like "teh". There's no technological excuse for not knowing the common things like your/you're or there/their/they're.

ftr, i do get lazy and type like this sometimes, with improper capitalization and punctuation. and mea culpa, i should be spelling it capitaliSation, as a good canuck

Wow, all sorts of red squiggly spell-check lines showing up there...

[DARISC]

Originally Posted by Christien

...I'm always the one that's correcting...

Would "Im the one "who's" be more correcter even...or righter, so to speak? Or is the difference the same (or whatever), as it were?

Poisonally, the only spell checker in my life is the one in my e-mail. Otherwise (mostly here) I click on a dictionary to check on spelling and/or meaning of words I'm not sure of. Doing that and correcting my own mistakes functions as a learning experience for me whereas relying on a spell checker doesn't seem to as much.

[Christien]

Originally Posted by DARISC

Would "Im the one "who's" be more correcter even

Hmm, "who" does flow off the tongue better, doesn't it? I think technically speaking either would be correct, as "who" or "that" refers to "one", not "I". "I am the one who"/"I am the one that".