Spelling...why do young people refuse to care about it?

Question

Even here on Yahoo----where you can use a Spell Check spelling and grammer are just awful.

Do none of you realize how this looks on a resume or job application?

Answer 1

Because of the absence of discipline.

Few students have either the motivation or the self discipline to bring about good spelling skills.

Unfortunately, the "system" has taken over education now, and the system itself has gone soft on discipline, preferring to play politics instead with our education programs.

Even as adults, most of our educated folk refuse to even use their spell checkers, and mainly for the same reasons, plus a dash of pride.

A pity, aye what? Good language is such music!

Answer 2

As a high school English teacher, I can say that most young people refuse to care about spelling because their peers refuse to care. If it was "cool" to spell well, they would. Proof-reading and revising, even with spell check, take too much time and trouble. Also, it seems to be a form of rebellion. Parents who went through their own rebellions in the 60s and 70s are difficult to shock - they're not bothered by outlandish hair, piercings, or tattoos because they have those themselves. Kids are just looking for something, anything, that will make adults shake their heads and wonder "Why do they do that?"

Answer 3

In the public school, up to about fourth grade, my sister was told, "Any way you spell is fine. Just sound it out and get your answers written down." This was great advice to help the kids become writers and thinkers in the younger grades, but it was totally counterproductive to teaching proper spelling and grammar. She latched onto the idea that anything that sounded right was acceptable, and it was very, very difficult to teach her proper spelling, even the easier stuff like "drop the y and add i-e-s"... little sayings that we did so often in Kindergarten that I can still recite most of them to the rhythm we were taught.

I have no idea how the school planned to teach spelling, since she was pulled out and homeschooled grades 5-12. But, I went to the high school in the area, and judging by some of the slop I had to revise in English, my guess is they never did get around to spelling or grammar. My guess would be, this is why kids don't care. Their teachers may be telling them not to, like my sister's teachers did.

Answer 4

This is not a resume or a job application I come here to unwind after work some just don't think about it or want to get there answer in as soon as passable if you can still read it then don't worry so much if you cant read it ignore it

Answer 5

grammer - grammar.

*ahem*

The correct way to have written that sentence would have been:

Even here on Yahoo, where you can use a spell-check, the spelling and grammar is just awful.


Not to nit-pick, but when you make a post pointing out the errors of others, you should at least proof-read it.

Answer 6

The Internet has its own etiquette. When e-mail first started people just wanted to get their point across, so spelling wasn't stressed, and sometimes it was even discouraged. Also, the current media culture of sound bites and quick takes has shortened peoples' attention spans. Details are less important than flash!

Answer 7

Too deep a question to really get into, but that really is a pet peeve of mine, also. I can't help but correct the managers at stores, restaurants, and even doctor's office. My husband finds it funny, but I can't stand to see signs, advertisements, or the like to be misspelled. I cringe when I see them on resumes also. I don't complain needlessly, I try to do something about it, which is part of the reason why, I teach. There, EVERYTHING just drives me crazy :)

Answer 8

bcuz they txt message all the time and as a result they don't know how 2 spell. Also, some schools erroneously teach phonetic spelling - spelling the werd how it sownds insted of the correkt way.

Don't u just h8 it?

Answer 9

Apparently not! It drives me nuts to see people spelling with z's where not needed or seeing the fact that they cannot spell at all. Makes me wonder whats happening to our education systems.

Answer 10

Grammar not Grammer. Sorry, it's funny that you pointed it out, I'm sure this was an accident on your part? I am concerned about our public school system, that's why I'm putting my kid in a private school.