Do schools not teach English anymore?
2006-08-02 10:16:56 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Home Schooling
Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rarely ever wrong.
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I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect in it's weigh
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2006-08-02 10:22:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
I prefer not to use the spell checker, and then learn from and take responsibility for my mistakes. The art of English is not dead, but it soon will be if people rely on spell checkers all the time. Pardon my ignorance, but does a spell checker differentiate between there, their and they're now?
2006-08-02 17:24:53 · answer #2 · answered by filmwatcher59 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not much to do but sit around on a Wednesday evening and complain about other people's spelling?
English is not an art, it is a language. Yes, many people misspell words, and the grammar may be mind-boggling, but, then, they're not here to learn english, nor grammar, but, to enjoy asking questions and getting help with their problems.
Relax, enjoy, get a life..
bye
2006-08-02 17:24:42 · answer #3 · answered by chuckufarley2a 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If I use the spell checker, it says I shouldn't use words like centre, neighbour, realise, etcetera.
It will try to convert them to some American dialect.
If you're well educated in the English language, you don't need the spelling checker.
Sorry if I wrote some errors, I'm Dutch (and blond!)
2006-08-02 17:23:18 · answer #4 · answered by leatherbiker040 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're not really a great advertisment for well-formed English yourself, oul stock!
Why, oh! why are so few of you using spell-checkers?
Try the book "Eats Shoots & Leaves" by Lynne Truss
2006-08-02 17:23:51 · answer #5 · answered by SouthOckendon 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I was at school English Language and English Literature were core subjects to which great detail and emphasis were placed. Mind you, this was in the 60's when discipline was firmly in place. At the risk of sounding an old" fuddy-duddy," in my opinion we have regressed educationally to the stage were semi literacy is an everyday occurrence. Check Speller has not been used in this compilation!
2006-08-02 17:46:19 · answer #6 · answered by Raymo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, schools teach English. Very few Americans still use it. Most no longer write letters or essays. It is a skill that must be practiced.
2006-08-02 17:22:33 · answer #7 · answered by bigtony615 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As far as i'm concerned, the internet is a disposable media - what i type today won't matter in a months time, so does correct spelling really matter?
Of course it matters if im typing something important out, but its not like anyone's life depends on any Yahoo Answers...... answer.
2006-08-02 19:03:13 · answer #8 · answered by haplesboylard 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It gets to me too, but what I realised when I lived in America is they spell different to us in the UK, so chill out because there are a lot of our US friends on here.
As for schools! There is less time spent on spelling which they say they will be addressing, and of course everyone now texts..
2006-08-02 17:31:38 · answer #9 · answered by Tink 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It may be a decline in educational standards, but it's more than that. My wife, who teaches (not English!) at a secondary school, frequently gets homework written in mobile phone text (txt?) speak!
2006-08-03 06:52:12 · answer #10 · answered by grpr1964 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋