I am convinced that reading questions posted here that many people flunked spelling, what do you think?

Question

It's either that or they have not gone to school yet!

Answer 1

I could not pass this up! I agree completely.
The problem is our school system doesn't spend suffient time or effort on the basics- reading, writing, and arithmetic, therefore, illiteracy is rampant. You'd think with slow economic growth, this longtime problem would have gotten much better. Unfortunately its effects can be seen all over our streets and neighborhoods; the poor.

Answer 2

Flunked???

I think you're giving them too much credit. I have my doubts that they ever knew how to spell well enough to have flunked. Never even made it to the exams, perhaps.

Edit: There is a question that went up here within the past thirty minutes which contained a good deal of spelling errors. The person asking the question included an apology for the errors in some Additional Details, but the apology itself was full of spelling errors as well.

Answer 3

Well, I have to say that sometimes people do not always spell right. I had to get over it myself because at an earlier time in my life it used to really get at me too. With a keyboard doing your writing, sometimes mishaps happen even to the best of spellers. My getting over it came from my own child's struggle with spelling. I have watched him and worked with him and he still struggles as a high school student. It does not make him anything bad though because he is poor at spelling. We continue to work at it, but in the meantime I have realized that other people spell things wrong and are great people, able to get their idea across by a means of communication. Really not a big deal that it may not be spelled correctly, but the idea makes it to your head. Spelling is important, I agree. But it isn't the top of the list with everybody else. It would be the nice thing to see things this way. It is nicer for me in that I don't hurt as many people's feelings now. Keep spelling:)

Answer 4

Here is proof that you don't need to be able to spell. I bet you can read this..... scary!

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Answer 5

Iam a student at Oxford University and Grammar is a factor which is easily resolved with the use of spell check. But for some people grammatical correctness is not an issue. Pedantry is the burden of the pedantic.

Your punctilious and somewhat stilted view will be noted. In future try not to be as pompous.

sOmE TiMes We dO tHinGS In A Huuree......LOL Just prooooooving a point!

Answer 6

I think you've brought up (perhaps unintentionally), two excellent points.

First, I agree that the spelling here is often atrocious. How much of that is actual spelling, how much of that is bad typing, and how much of that is that people don't realize that red underlined words are miss spelled is open to question.

Second, the spread of internet shorthand, combined with a growing tendency for people to simply spell things however they want has become rampant, and our vernacular seems to be changing as a result.

I think its a bad thing, others would disagree.

Just my .01

-dh

Answer 7

That is so true! It is hard to understand why they would not be able to spell the simple words if nothing else! Then they are looking for love at 13, buy a spelling book I say and practice!

Answer 8

I know most of the time my mind works faster then my fingers can type, thus my errors. Plus I always forget to use spell check. I think people's grammar is worse then their spelling.

Answer 9

Or they aren't worried about spelling because that takes the fun out of it. MOST people get the point without perfect spelling. Unless they spend their day ironing their starched shirts, counting to 100 before they turn on the bathroom light and opening doors with tissues to avoid germs.........

Answer 10

Unfortunately, it's not just here... it's the majority of the internet. What the kids are doing is writing in abbreviations all the time, which seriously hampers their spelling and English skills in general.

I find it very sad.