Does anyone else still consider spelling and handwriting to be important?

Question

To be honest a lot of the standard of spelling and handwriting these days is appaling.

Thanks CoolTyger. You make an excellent point.

The word is spelt a-p-p-a-l-l-i-n-g.

Whoops I guess that makes me as bad as the rest! LOL

Answer 1

definitely - something I've been trying to drum into my 13 year old daughter's head. Will present/future employers employee people who can't spell in their c.v's?

Answer 2

I consider both to be really important. Bad spelling just makes people look ignorant. I know some people are dyslexic and can't help it, but for the vast majority there is no excuse! I don't think government policies can take all the blame, there are a fair few teachers who can't spell or write either (both teachers I had at school and friends and family who teach now!). The embarassing thing is that most people who speak English as a second language can spell better than most native speakers. Often people have put a lot of effort into learning the language and want to increase their chances of getting a job.....shame this hasn't clicked with some native speakers in this country yet! A recent example of this were some CVs I received for a vacancy. There were more typos in the CVs from the native English speakers than there were in those from the German and French applicants (who had applied in English).

Handwriting says a lot about who we are too. One thing that really frustrates me is the handwriting often used by young girls (and sometimes continued in their adult lives) where instead of a dot over the 'i' they draw a little bubble. I remember girls at school thinking it was cool to do this....as an adult how can this ever be taken seriously!?

Answer 3

Yes. I absolutely agree. Children these days are not taught spelling, grammar, sentence construction or anything to do with real English. It's all style and no structure. Computers have spell checkers and mobile phones have predictive text. So why don't people use them? My real bugbear is the inappropriate use of the apostrophe. People are constantly misusing it, or leaving it out when it should be used. By the way, it's appalling how you spelled appalling!

Answer 4

for spelling confident of direction (properly while writing an essay)handwriting no longer lots as long because it rather is readable then they wont count huge style off.... yet in public highschool they dont have spelling yet while i became in inner maximum college of direction we had spelling. they have been very perplexing words and we had to correctly known the meaning and the place they have been derived from! so in case you want your toddlers to verify the thank you to spell and be extra ideal in lots of matters with large instructors i might say you're able to attempt a private college only seem into some on the internet.....

Answer 5

It depends on what context. For a formal letter or even a post card I think that legibility is essential. For a shopping list I don't think immaculate copperplate script is necessary.
I myself have problems with spelling because I am dyslexic but for the most part I find that because I pay attention to my spelling more than most people I tend to actually make fewer spelling errors than a lot of people do.

Answer 6

absolutely...I think spelling and handwriting are imperative, and I spend a lot of time with my 3 kids making sure that their homework has correct spellings...it is so easy these days with the 'text' language to forget how to spell correctly. (by the way appalling has 2 l's hehe)

Answer 7

if theres anything more annoying than bad spelling and handwriting i dont know what it is,my daughter frequently brings home school work with bad spelling that hasnt been corrected by her teacher,and during the school holidays i bought a book to help with hand writing and when she went back she was told off by her teacher for using joined up handwriting as they werent "covering it" yet,flippin insane!

Answer 8

Nope. It's all window dressing. Lots of people sure know all the rules of spelling and grammar. But, they never actually write anything of any import. I look back through YA participant's questions and answers whenever they disparage other participants for spelling and grammar errors. And, sure as heck, that's ALL they do here, belittle people for spelling and grammar errors! : ) They never have anything else to contribute. Spelling and grammar apprarently aren't a big part of the generation of original thought.

Answer 9

Well I don't really care about spelling but my handwriting is appalling! But spelling is important and if it didn't matter I would spell stuff incorrectly.

Answer 10

As so clearly demonstrated!

I fear that the apostrophe is going to become a de facto standard, with them added whenever there is a plural - and not added for "you're" or "it's your's". Lack of punctuation can ruin a perfectly good sentence and make it unreadable. Sadly this doesn't seem to be taught in schools anymore.

Answer 11

Yes, it's important. The use of mobiles and abbreviations, etc on the internet undermine its importance. I dont consider handwriting very important (probably because mine is pretty bad!) as long as it is legible.