Clair Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 In the days of txt msg, Facebook and Twitter, is spelling still relevant?[IMG]http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q296/clair46/6893f4be.jpg[/IMG]I needed a good laugh!More HERE... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Ice-ni Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 Only to those who can. Even Kiara, who claims to, shows her ignorance over the reason for having a spell checker. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooperlola Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 Some of those are hysterical, Clair.I now know what Dick Smith's doing with his time these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clair Posted March 6, 2012 Author Share Posted March 6, 2012 [quote user="cooperlola"]Some of those are hysterical, Clair.[/quote]I know!! I keep having to wipe the tears from my eyes! [:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quillan Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 Reminds me of my mother who at my fathers wake at her home when somebody said how nice the room looked replied "Yes Stanley was very good with his hands. He put this d ildo up for me and it goes all round the room". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balham Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 Grammar and spelling still relevant. Perhaps I am old fashioned but I think why should I decipher what is occasionally gobbledy gook. In this day of spell checkers, on line dictionaries in a multitude of languages there is less excuse \ reason for bad spelling now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balham Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 Grammar and spelling still relevant. Perhaps I am old fashioned but I think why should I decipher what is occasionally gobbledy gook. In this day of spell checkers, on line dictionaries in a multitude of languages there is less excuse \ reason for bad spelling now.Having had a look at some of those Facebook comments, rest assured you don't need to take a stupid test to join, they have a fixed quota of dumbos per month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 Amongst specific groups, variant grammar and spelling are simply codes used to identify their differences from other groups in society and don't matter much. When however it is necessary to communicate generally or across groups, then they are very necessary otherwise we have bedlam and babel.Of course, variants can and do cross group barriers and even enter the general sphere, usually because they have some interest or power. Look at the hideous word 'innit' which one hears more and more.A non linguistic example was the originally Caribbean 'high-five' greeting that sportsmen used for a while but which has now apparently disappeared, at least I do hope so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 "Amongst specific groups, variant grammar and spelling are simply codes used to identify their differences from other groups in society and does not matter much. When however it is necessary to communicate generally or across groups, then they are necessary otherwise we there is bedlam (and babel?).Of course variants can and do cross group barriers and even enter the general sphere, usually because they have some interest or power. Look at the hideous word 'innit' which one hears more and more.A non linguistic example was the originally Caribbean 'high-five' greeting sportsmen used for a while but which has apparently disappeared, at least I do hope so."Add "fotos" to your list of hideous words! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 Ye's, I too do use the word 'foto' a lot, so, mea culpa. But then it is a word I wanna see changed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balham Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 [quote user="Jay"]Add "fotos" to your list of hideous words![/quote]Oh dear . . . . [url=http://balhamfoto.blogspot.com/]my blog[/url] [img]http://www.anchoredbygrace.com/smileys/blush1.gif[/img] but Foto is word, just not an English word. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Ice-ni Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 BTW are you still "the gateway to the South"?John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balham Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 Gosh, that's going back a bit, part of a publicity campaign."The origin of the phrase "Balham – Gateway to the South" was a Southern Railway advertisement dating from the 1926 opening of the tube station. The stations connect Balham to both the City of London and the West End".But me, no, childhood memories there for a while, que ça.Oh, speling, i stil thinc it iz importent that peeple know how to spel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 I associate it with Peter Sellers.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 English grammar and punctuation are relatively easy. But English spelling is quite the reverse - probably the most irregular of all alphabetic systems. Not only can you not tell how to spell a word from hearing it spoken; you can’t even be sure how a word is spoken from the written word http://spellingsociety.org/Modern English spelling is of course quite recent.and as someone who has taught English to foreign students for several years I can vouch for the fact that the illogical spelling of the language is one of the greatest barriers to learning:http://spellingsociety.org/spelling/irregularitiesYou have to decide where you live:http://www.avko.org/free/instructional/british_vs_american_spelling.htmThe fact is that for a great part of the history on English there was no fixed spellingSome interesting papers:http://spellingsociety.org/aboutsss/johnson1.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balham Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 [quote user="NormanH"]I associate it with Peter Sellers..[/quote]Peter Sellers comes a few years later (circa 1958, a few years after the Southern Railway. I associate Balham with Clapham South, there is logic there or rather . . . their is lojik they're [img]http://serve.mysmiley.net/happy/happy0006.gif[/img]. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoneySuckleDreams Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 [quote user="NormanH"]I associate it with Peter Sellers..[/quote]Is that the one with toothbrush holesmanship ? The glittering lights changing constantly from green to amber to red and back again? Yes, I think it was in my dads, rather eclectic, collection of 78's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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