Making an Argument for Spelling

[Dead Winter]

Yeah, let's just label it as "variant" and not "wrong" when you're too stupid to look in a dictionary to find a word you don't know how to spell, or just too stupid to know how to spell in the first place.

Yay for the bleeding hearts! Making the world dumber and promoting laziness and stupidity a little bit more every day.

I almost fell out of my chair when I read this: "In the 21st century, why learn by heart rote spelling when you can just type it into a computer and spell-check?"

This guy must play WoW.


http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1832104,00.html

 

[Psychonaut]

WoW has spell-check now?

If I can't spell something I go around it by using another word.

 

[Dead Winter]

Haha, no it doesn't have spell check...but it should, judging by all the people who can't spell "rogue".

 

[Psychonaut]

Haha "Lvl 41 rouge LFG!! PST have preist!!!

 

[Shmu]

Warriar lfg - ST pm me

 

[Lunar Still]

In one comedian's immortal words:

"If I had known the difference between 'antidote' and 'anecdote' my friend Jimmy Smitts would still be alive today."

 

[Lordlucid]

Dead Winter....
You complain to much.
Sorry man.

 

[Lunar Still]

You complain to much.

If this was intentional, then this post contains awesome hilarity.

If it was NOT intentional, however, then you just went a long way to proving the legitimacy of his complaints.

 

[derek]

There is no doubt that it's valid, but the nature of language softens the blow somewhat. Throw in some linguistic psychology/evolution and it's quite possible that the declining standards of grammatical skill are right and correct.

 

[Dead Winter]

Dead Winter....
You complain to much.
Sorry man.

You just validated my point.

Yeah, but that's the problem...if no one complains, people think it's ok to speak and spell like a complete moron.

 

[Captain Beard]

There is no doubt that it's valid, but the nature of language softens the blow somewhat. Throw in some linguistic psychology/evolution and it's quite possible that the declining standards of grammatical skill are right and correct.

So, they go hand in hand with decline in intelligence? Modern English isn't a decline from middle, nor is middle from old. What's going on now isn't linguistic evolution so much as intentional laziness and ineptitude.

 

[Chromatose]

It's been too strict since the invention of the printing press anyway, before that it was a spelling FREE FOR ALL. good riddance.

 

[Captain Beard]

"Congreff?"

 

[Lunar Still]

So, they go hand in hand with decline in intelligence? Modern English isn't a decline from middle, nor is middle from old. What's going on now isn't linguistic evolution so much as intentional laziness and ineptitude.

Aye. "Phantasy" changing to "fantasy" is one thing; not giving a shit about standards and just spelling words however you feel is another.

 

[Lord Foul]

English has been a slapdash, mongrel language for a very long time. Our spelling and grammar conventions are hopelessly archaic and inconsistent. I have no objection to an overhaul of the system that favors phonetic spellings.

 

[Captain Beard]

Go tap out your condensed conversations on your cellular phone and leave us to our intelligent, spelled out musings then, fool!

 

[derek]

So, they go hand in hand with decline in intelligence? Modern English isn't a decline from middle, nor is middle from old. What's going on now isn't linguistic evolution so much as intentional laziness and ineptitude.

It depends on your viewpoint. It's possible to read many situations that could be categorised as "declining" as simply evolving. It's not always best, just whatever stays around the longest.

It's also arguable whether modern English is worse, by whatever standards, than languages that have came before it. I'm only in the shallow end of linguistic academia, but many believe that English lacks the expression and flexibility of older languages. Whether that's because it's not all that old itself, or because it is intrinsically weaker, I'm not sure.

 

[Chromatose]

ye letter "thorn" needs to once again rise from antiquity and crush ye modern bastardizations of such in its wake.

 

[derek]

Well, I happen to consider modern English somewhat clunky. I prefer older usages, but that may be as much personal preference as anything else.

 

[Captain Beard]

Regardless, why is that that the only promoters of condensed English are the retards themselves, and perhaps a few liberal assholes?