I was at the start of the computer generation; they were just being put into schools, and just forming the formal writing guidelines for a paper that was printed as opposed to written
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Some of us are pathetic spellers no matter what, unfortunately. I think I swing it pretty well, but the spell check feature on FireFox is a godsend to me, and I aced every single one of my spelling tests in grade school. It just comes to some people more naturally than others. If she uses t9 to spell her texts correctly... hey, whatever works. At least she's making an effort to actually spell out words instead of using the brain busting netspeak every other teenager seems to use now
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While I agree that it's better than netspeak, there's really no excuse for not being able to spell words one would commonly use text messaging. Doing it to avoid typos? Okay. But for not knowing how to spell the words? I mean, we're talking under 3 syllables here! Writing an essay, a story, a blog... Okay, you can get thrown some tough words and have a bigger inner-thesaurus than you do an inner-dictionary. But not knowing how to spell things people text? Come on now. I guess I'm just tired of people (not talking about you) being like, "It's totally the effort that counts!" and letting issues pass by and giving out undeserved grades for fear of hurting someone's self esteem
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God this turned into a novella... sorry about that. You bring the verbose side of me out to play every time we talk. :P
I am sincerely glad for you that you were blessed with a natural ability to know how things are spelled. Really, I am. My mother is like that; basically a human dictionary. There are many normal people, though, who are not, myself included. I have misspelled two and three syllable words many, many times, no matter how commonly they are used. I didn't slack in school and I am most certainly not lazy or unintelligent, but the way you worded that makes me feel more than a bit dumb for being guilty of it. Just because you can do it easily doesn't mean that everyone else can. I never said anything about handing out undeserved grades for effort, either. I loathe that trend
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My basic point was that the girl in question was using t9 texting for the purpose of making sure she was spelling things correctly so she could (I assume) sound like an intelligent person. I don't see what's wrong with that and I even identify with her because I commonly have to pause and check myself (or FireFox checks for me when I've guessed a spelling incorrectly) when I spell common words. It's not because I didn't pay attention in school, and it's not because I never "learned how to spell instead of using spell check". I'm an intelligent person. I maintained a 4.0+ all through high school and a 3.86 in college, had all the academic awards and honors, blah blah blah... I just can't spell all that well. And again, I'm not talking about the extremes like our exes who are ridiculously horrendous at it. I just mean people who are intelligent and paid attention in school but just aren't talented when it comes to spelling. Maybe I'm just being optimistic, but I don't believe spell check is a crutch for the majority of
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I have to say that your first reply kind of blind-sided me, so forgive me if I made you think that I regard you as stupid in my last reply. I considered this a short-and-sweet, funny, throw-away post; kinda funny, but not something that would make it to anyone’s memories and be forgotten as soon as it was read. Suddenly I find myself on the side of an “issue” that I didn’t even realize I was on, or even addressing
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I am sincerely glad for you that you were blessed with a natural ability to know how things are spelled. Really, I am. My mother is like that; basically a human dictionary. There are many normal people, though, who are not, myself included. I have misspelled two and three syllable words many, many times, no matter how commonly they are used. I didn't slack in school and I am most certainly not lazy or unintelligent, but the way you worded that makes me feel more than a bit dumb for being guilty of it. Just because you can do it easily doesn't mean that everyone else can. I never said anything about handing out undeserved grades for effort, either. I loathe that trend ( ... )
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My basic point was that the girl in question was using t9 texting for the purpose of making sure she was spelling things correctly so she could (I assume) sound like an intelligent person. I don't see what's wrong with that and I even identify with her because I commonly have to pause and check myself (or FireFox checks for me when I've guessed a spelling incorrectly) when I spell common words. It's not because I didn't pay attention in school, and it's not because I never "learned how to spell instead of using spell check". I'm an intelligent person. I maintained a 4.0+ all through high school and a 3.86 in college, had all the academic awards and honors, blah blah blah... I just can't spell all that well. And again, I'm not talking about the extremes like our exes who are ridiculously horrendous at it. I just mean people who are intelligent and paid attention in school but just aren't talented when it comes to spelling. Maybe I'm just being optimistic, but I don't believe spell check is a crutch for the majority of ( ... )
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