Are we a nation of poor spellers?
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I've been reading some blogs today, and I am struck by the poor spelling in some of them.
I'm not a perfect speller myself, but I'm amazed at the lack of knowledge of how to spell the most basic words...or how to use words properly. Some of the stuff I read today looked like it had been written by my 3rd grader! I know that sometimes people get ahead of themselves when they're typing and letters get put in the wrong order (i'm guilty of that, just as I'm guilty of mis-spelling sometimes) - but the errors I saw today were, like I said, grade school stuff. I had spent most of my time trying to decipher what the words actually were so I could put them into context in the sentences...by which time I had become tired of reading and didn't bother to finish the article.
Is spelling not taught in schools today? Are the days of the spelling lists and tests gone forever?
Do people not realize how uneducated they look when they publish something that's full of basic mistakes like that? I think that it can undermine the whole point of what you're writing (a subject that was already touched upon by another blogger but i feel that i have to reinforce).
There, I said it.
I'm not a perfect speller myself, but I'm amazed at the lack of knowledge of how to spell the most basic words...or how to use words properly. Some of the stuff I read today looked like it had been written by my 3rd grader! I know that sometimes people get ahead of themselves when they're typing and letters get put in the wrong order (i'm guilty of that, just as I'm guilty of mis-spelling sometimes) - but the errors I saw today were, like I said, grade school stuff. I had spent most of my time trying to decipher what the words actually were so I could put them into context in the sentences...by which time I had become tired of reading and didn't bother to finish the article.
Is spelling not taught in schools today? Are the days of the spelling lists and tests gone forever?
Do people not realize how uneducated they look when they publish something that's full of basic mistakes like that? I think that it can undermine the whole point of what you're writing (a subject that was already touched upon by another blogger but i feel that i have to reinforce).
There, I said it.
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