Something interesting for those worried about spelling.
 

Just something I found.

Try and read this. :biggrin:


I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid. Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer inwaht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas thought slpeling was ipmorantt.


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They're right. That was relatively easy to read. Where's boB :exclaim: :question: :exclaim: :exclaim:

:eek: I am some what safer :lol: :mrgreen:

Brad

I think this is the third time this has been posted. Bob is already aware of this study... :razz:

Oh Jesus you will give Bob a heart attack with that paragraph.


mike :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Yes I have seen it, and I agree that it is readable. However that does not help me when I see all the spelling errors our posters make. And really does it hurt to be a little careful when posting something for the world to see. :question:

:rolleyes: Ya because the world judges us on our spelling :rolleyes:

Well, sometimes it does. If you submitted a resume to me and it had a spelling error, it would get tossed. So it does pay to take a minute and proof read what you've typed.

Ya okay a resume but i mean an oline board aobut reefing. If i were jusding it would be about how crrect the information on that board was. Not the spelling. You are going to ry to tell me that you wont attempt to read a board that is full to the brim of top notch information but it has spelling mistakes? I dont think so.

myself being a teachers son,am very picky about spelling. My girlfriend is a terrible speller and I bug her all the time. I feel it is a good practise to spell correctly because you never know...

Srory Bard I dindt raelzie tihs was a repsot. :lol:

BTW, the post wasn't directed at anyone at all (ie. boB).

It was just something I stumbled across that was kind of neat.

I hope it doesn't end up causing a heated dabate. :smile:

No worries, Gray, I'm sure it will get psoted again. Seems once a year someone finds that and posts it. :razz:

man the spelling in this post got really bad the farther you read down :lol:

Agreed. Well said Bob.

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Maybe they should make a program like word perfect. It corrects the mistakes for ya , But that might be a little too lazy.


mike

As an academic tutor, I've read some really poorly-written papers. However, this is understandable since most of my students are from overseas & have only been studying in English for a couple of years. I've also told my elementary & high schoolers that you "play like you practice." So if they don't worry about spelling & using proper grammar when they're doing stuff like posting on forums, then they'll most likely pick up bad habits that will be harder to break when they are doing it for "real" and it'll cost them marks on their assignments & exams & maybe a job in the future (Brad's resume example).

I made a conscious decision to try to not correct people on their spelling errors on these forums, but seriously, some postings are hard to understand. If you have something to say or write, then do it in a form that's clear & understandable. Nobody's asking for perfection, just a little more effort to help get your point across.

JMO,

Anthony