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This seems to have come from left field, RAK. Have the locals' spelling been bugging you recently? As far as the research goes, I think it should be in context, and more or less in decent grouping. It's not so much about the individual letters as it is the grouping. If you can trick your mind into thinking the word on paper is the word it should be thinking, spelling doesn't matter. While I agree with that, the idea is completely nonsensical. The philosophy would be the same as "If you can trick a car to go less distance by using more gas, then you should be allowed to." Attention nonsensical spelling-users, stop wasting your gas and my time. |
Red Guard Posts: 3978 Joined: 27 Mar 2008   | I'll continue to use the jumbled letters observation as evidence. But not to justify bad spelling. Rather, to explain why the "phonics" idea of learning to read in terms of collections of letters signifying sounds doesn't really give a student the whole framework needed for effective reading. There's no shortcut for early and broad exposure to written words! -- Alex |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2538 Joined: 29 Mar 2008    | meh. i dont care that much. as long as i can undersantd wahts being said, I dnot care about acccruacy that much |
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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3239 Joined: 19 Sep 2008    | I am actually dyslexic. My form of dyslexia the individual letters and such get mixed up, missing, or are backwards. I didn't know i was dyslexic until I was 14, and I was a straight A student. I think that thing that says you only need a couple letters to read it is TRUE. Because that's the ONLY WAY I EVER GET TO READ. I have been able to write well enough for it to hold up in court 100x times. If I can type at least somewhat understandably. You should be able to as well. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1861 Joined: 13 Jul 2008    | Ncie job terhe. (rfol) |
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While I meant this topic to be controversial, I didn't mean to argue against those who have a legitimate reason for imperfect spelling. I understand dyslexia perfectly well, and I also understand that the idea that a word can be imperfectly spelt and still be legible; I have no difficulties with it myself. What does annoy me is the idea that this concept is occasionally used to excuse deliberately incorrect spelling; that is, misspellings that result from laziness and inconsideration rather than any condition which would legitimately cause difficulties with spelling. While I can read a poorly-written sentence as quickly as I can read a properly-spelt one (just as I can read a sentence upside down almost as quickly as I can read it facing the right way up), reading a sentence which is filled with spelling mistakes is uncomfortable and occasionally infuriating. User was banned for: New Year's Eve...New Year resolutions. (Permanent) |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2317 Joined: 9 Feb 2009    |
I don't understand how you can call that deliberately spelling words incorrectly. I mean if they're just lazy, they're deliberately leaving spelling errors. Wich I'd say is something else. But as for the purpose of this thread, I agree with you. I think. The thing is - when a post contains a spelling error in every sixth word, I don't have any big issues with it. And I don't see why people would (Except the fact that they would sincerely keep this forum as what it is now - seemingly the only online forum with intelligent people) have a problem with it. What I do see as a problem however. Is when people deliberately are using shitloads of acronyms. To that extend that it's making the text difficult to read. This also counts for "1337-sp33k". That's horrible. It may be fun in some context. But writing that like everything else ... That's just plain annoying. There is one last thing that annoys the crap out of me, though. When people are barely using punctuation. That's fucking with my head. It makes the whole thing a lot more difficult to read. And that people should be able to avoid. As long as it's not difficult to read, I'm fine with it If this is your opinion too, then I totaly agree with you, mate =D |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3034 Joined: 2 Oct 2008  |
Why thanks Necro, I think I'm pretty awesome too! Oh stop, there's really no need for such flattery, ok, if you insist! |
On the Record  Posts: 6152 Joined: 14 Sep 2008    |
Too bad 90% of the people (at least in public schools in Poland) just have poor grammar skills and use dyslexia as an excuse. I mean, I have the dysgraphia (poor visuals), but I'd rather say it's because I was lazy. School was too easy, so I didn't do ANYTHING. Maybe except for learning History, because the teacher was demanding. Everything else was pathetic, so I didn't even try and do my homework. |
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You've probably all heard it before - the idea that a word can be as jumbled as you like, as long as the first and last letters are in the right place, and it will remain legible. This idea annoyed me, because it implies that misspellings are acceptable, so I went in search of a way to disprove this theory.
A read through the Irish satirical current affairs magazine, The Phoenix, gave me the ammunition I needed. I noticed that in an article, the name of the Sunday newspaper, the Sunday Tribune, had deliberately been referred to with the misspelling, Turbine, in much the same way as the Sunday Independent is given the nickname of Sindo by the magazine, or Private Eye's famous Granuiad for The Guardian.
While this was legible in context, out of context, it would mean nothing, as the letter configuration used by the magazine was in fact a word in its own right, having the same first and last letters as the name of the paper, and meaning completely different things. I submit to you that the ridiculous idea that a word with jumbled letters will remain legible is not always true. Now, can we get back to spelling things correctly without somebody using that farcical idea to support people with bad spelling?