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glowing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 07:02 AM Original message |
Does anyone realize how bad our spelling has gotten in the last |
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mwb970 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 07:07 AM Response to Original message |
1. Many Americans cannot speak or write proper English. |
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alcibiades_mystery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 01:24 PM Response to Reply #1 |
32. I can show you treatises on English education making the same claim |
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NashVegas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 07:09 AM Response to Original message |
2. What Do You Mean, "Our"? |
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glowing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 07:32 AM Response to Reply #2 |
7. I meant that trying to spell all dubya's dumb ass words and made-up |
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malaise (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 07:36 AM Response to Reply #2 |
8. I hope so |
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glowing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 07:39 AM Response to Reply #8 |
10. see... I'm even coining words myself these days.... |
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malaise (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 07:41 AM Response to Reply #10 |
11. LOL n/t |
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SammyWinstonJack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 08:37 AM Response to Reply #8 |
19. A bu$hism? |
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karlrschneider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 08:41 AM Response to Reply #8 |
20. Urban stupidity? |
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JustABozoOnThisBus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 03:02 PM Response to Reply #8 |
40. Idiocity? It's the driving force behind idiocracy. |
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HereSince1628 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 07:10 AM Response to Original message |
3. Di you reely think that Cheney will hand over the sock puppet in 09? |
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MissWaverly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 07:12 AM Response to Original message |
4. Ha, not on here |
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napi21 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 07:30 AM Response to Original message |
5. I've noticed, but I can't blame THIS ONE on Shrub! |
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glowing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 07:37 AM Response to Reply #5 |
9. I suppose I should have clarified... I meant trying to re-spell the words |
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Clark2008 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 07:57 AM Response to Reply #5 |
14. Maybe they ARE spelling phonetically, and that's why their spelling |
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napi21 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 08:04 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Maybe, but that wasn't the case in the past, and the spelling of |
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MedleyMisty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 12:15 PM Response to Reply #15 |
27. Nope. |
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alcibiades_mystery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 02:06 PM Response to Reply #15 |
38. Did they include "haveing" spelled with an "e"? |
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bumblebee1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 11:53 AM Response to Reply #14 |
25. In English, one word can be spelled different ways. |
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mwb970 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 02:05 PM Response to Reply #25 |
37. You remind me of the quote from Andrew Jackson. |
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old guy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 12:46 PM Response to Reply #14 |
28. Guilty. |
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Occulus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 01:00 PM Response to Reply #5 |
29. I've always thought it was BCAUSE schools teach spelling by phonics |
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jimshoes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 07:32 AM Response to Original message |
6. Are you Series? |
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NoPasaran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 07:47 AM Response to Original message |
12. Don't go casting asparagus at our linguistocratic combonaroos! |
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VP505 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 08:05 AM Response to Reply #12 |
16. Is that supposed to |
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Clark2008 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 07:54 AM Response to Original message |
13. A lot of it has to do with Internet Speak, as well. |
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soothsayer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 08:35 AM Response to Reply #13 |
17. I was an excellent speller pre-spellcheck; it's made me lazy |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 08:36 AM Response to Original message |
18. Whut r u talking abowt? |
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book_worm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 08:42 AM Response to Original message |
21. Actually "our" handwriting has gotten pretty shabby too because of computers |
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Bluebear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 08:42 AM Response to Original message |
22. "Snafu's" what? |
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Bitwit1234 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 08:48 AM Response to Original message |
23. I have to admit |
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datasuspect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 08:55 AM Response to Original message |
24. "the english language will become a patois of gang slang, hillbilly, and hip hop" |
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alcibiades_mystery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 01:25 PM Response to Reply #24 |
33. Since these are remarkably creative linguistic communities |
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Hubert Flottz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 11:59 AM Response to Original message |
26. Wee Doo Bedder then booosh |
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chaska (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 01:20 PM Response to Original message |
30. Your right. There dumber than a box a rocks. Bunch a loosers... |
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alcibiades_mystery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 01:23 PM Response to Original message |
31. Are you attributing "bad" spelling to George Bush? |
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Bluerthanblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 01:38 PM Response to Original message |
34. funny, i |
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JacquesMolay (413 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 01:39 PM Response to Original message |
35. I thought that was 'speling' |
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Rosemary2205 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 02:04 PM Response to Original message |
36. We can't blame GWB. |
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Cha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 02:25 PM Response to Original message |
39. Sorry, don't buy that...I don't |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 03:25 PM Response to Original message |
41. Capitalize "Dubya" since it's a proper noun. Don't use apostrophe-S for plurals. |
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