{"id":80,"date":"2008-10-16T23:56:10","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T03:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/?p=80"},"modified":"2008-10-22T22:48:52","modified_gmt":"2008-10-23T02:48:52","slug":"bad-spellers-of-the-world-untie-i-don%e2%80%99t-get-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/?p=80","title":{"rendered":"Bad Spellers of the World Untie! I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get it."},"content":{"rendered":"

When I first saw this printed on a t-shirt I was with a couple of my friends and they burst into laughter. I sat there and giggled a bit but that was just a front to hide my confusion. For a long time I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get it. What can I say?<\/p>\n

I am a bad speller.<\/p>\n

I am the first one to admit it. Nel and Cory are the first people to tell others. They laugh at me all the time especially when I make errors in my emails. My vocal vocabulary far surpasses my written so I have developed a habit of spelling words fonetically, sorry that is phonetically.<\/p>\n

Now both of my fellow bloggers enjoy helping me correct my spelling mistakes. Cory likes to put \u00e2\u20ac\u0153it is spelled like \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcthis\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u009d for me, which is great. I never remember past that email but it is still great. But Nel uses what we can call negative reinforcement. All his spelling help is CAPITALIZED and followed by a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153DUMBASS\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or something along those lines. Now that does help it stick for an extra email or so but still it goes pretty quickly.<\/p>\n

I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know why this is. I guess after spell check was developed my brain just dropped the part where it kept correctly spelled words. I know this is a horrible thing but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s true. That little abc-checkmark-button just makes not worrying about it so easy. With the newer programs they automatically change some words so you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even know you have made a mistake. This just means you keep writing the word the same way over and over thinking you have spelt it correctly.<\/p>\n

For a person like me spell check is a god send. But it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really help me learn. Yes, when I was in school, it reduced the amount of red that appeared on reports and such but I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t learn anything. Even though I try I still depend highly on those red lines to pop up and that little button.<\/p>\n

But in a society where text messaging is becoming the norm, spelling (or grammar) doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seem to matter that much. Whole sentences and emotions are written with a few letters. For example: ill b l8 2morrow k? c u qt. (Neither Cory or Nel would accept this in either an email or text) Because of this, spelling and grammar are going to become a lost art form. And even for a bad speller like myself I find that very sad.<\/p>\n

I guess it is good that I have friends who would not let this happen. Even though they get the jist, sorry gist, of what I am saying they always make sure I know what I have done wrong. You learn from your mistakes right? Even if it only lasts for a short time.<\/p>\n

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When I first saw this printed on a t-shirt I was with a couple of my friends and they burst into laughter. I sat there and giggled a bit but that was just a front to hide my confusion. For a long time I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get it. What can I say? I am a bad […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93,"href":"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}