Spelling Mistakes...

The purpose of the written word is?

Communication...

scratchy said:
....Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe......
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Can you read and understand the above? If so perhaps it has served its purpose...

Thank you Scratchy. You can see his full post (and a translation) here: http://forums.auran.com/trainz/showpost.php?p=875767&postcount=11

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Is it possible that some forum members have not read this thread?

Is it possible that some forum members can not understand some of the points made in this thread?

Is it possible that some forum members will not agree with some of the points made in this thread?

Is it possible that some forum members do not really care about some of the points made in this thread?

Going back to my crayons and coloring book with emphasis on staying inside the lines.

Have fun,
 
'Color' IS the correct version, we (British/English) jumped ship to the french-sounding version *after* America split off (well, it'd be more accurate to say after the people that split off America left Britain, as I think this happened around 1770 iirc), in an attempt to look fancy and posh.
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Thank you, NikkiA, I have not come across this suggestion before and I'm always hapy to learn something new about our language.

Incidentally, 'color' was the Old French spelling according to the OED, but I'm not sure how the 'u' crept into that language during the Middle Ages. It was certainly not in the original Latin.

I see that Fowler's 'Modern English Usage' prefers the spelling 'realize' etc.

Ray
 
aardvark1 said:
Is it possible that some forum members do not really care about some of the points made in this thread?
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Almost got me pegged there

Is it possible that some of the forum member do not care about points made in this thread.

Would suit me better notice its a statement not a question, please note that my last post was not zeriouz at all but was aimed to be more tounge in cheek. Totaly zorry in anybody took it the wrong way.
 
big_b said:
I am a very good speller it's just thay now I'm getting close to 60 & every time i go to the optomartoist he says I need new tgalsses but that dosen't syop the keys moving to fifferent places on my ketboatd every time I go to tupe a word.

Seriously though I think the problem is in the school system.My grandson was taught to spell words the way they sounded when he first started school ( eg kat ) then as he progressed he was taught to spell correctly.

Or There just too lazy to care in allot of cases.

Schools need to get back to basics & teach the way they used to.Most teenagers these days can't add two numbers without a calculator.

Dave
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Dave,

You've brought up a few good points here. Up where I live, the students are no longer taught anything in particular other than how to pass the state student assessment test (MCAST). From the time the kids are in first grade right through graduation, they are given daily drills on the questions and have answer keys to go along with them. In the process, they may have an outside curricula subject, but that's watered down to nothing. Good music and art are no longer taught, so there's no thinking and creative thinking involved.

The problem is the kids are taught these answers only with no concept, no critical thinking, and nothing else, so when they're thrust out into the real world after graduation, they have zero skills!

What happened to the traditional teaching? Has this gone by the way-side because it's old-fashioned because it isn't dumbed down and easy.

John
 
John
You are exactly correct. Kids are no longer taught problem solving skills and without them, they just become robots spitting out 'canned' answers and have no idea how those answers were derived.

In Architecture School, the first design class that I had concentrated on nothing but problem solving to bring us up to some basic skills, and that was 40 years ago. It's obvious that higher learning institutions recognized that problem way back then.

Mike
 
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It would be interesting to know how many of the kids & young adults these days could recite their times tables 2-12 without aid.
My eldest now just on 30 has fair knowledge of them but the other 3 younger ones say we were taught to use calculators.

Lets hope the fate of the world dosen't depend on someone doing a long division or similar with pen & paper because the batteries went flat.
 
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