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Old 03-02-2010, 01:00 AM   #8086
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Dear American folk,

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Excuse me, but you've spelled your name wrong.





I used to love to look over someone's shoulder while they were typing and then go "Uh, you've spelled 'thuh' instead of 'thee'..." The mind translates it both ways, and some would panic while trying to figure out which ones were wrong.


Whew. I kill me. ("well, somebody should...")
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Old 03-02-2010, 01:12 AM   #8087
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Although, thanks to the large amount of US content on our TVs, many of us try to dial '911' before remembering that our emergency number is '000'
...which, unlike 911, actually sounds logical.

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What? Your English teachers know how to spell??
The 35 or so who still have jobs, anyway...you see, in our state teachers aren't getting paid anymore and/or getting laid off because said state is run by criminals. Get into Chicago and they're just happy when the kids don't show up with guns.

I seriously thought about being an English teacher, until I realized how much self-control it would take to refrain from belting half the parents who come into my classroom to tell me their lazy little doorstop of a child is the next Stephen Hawking and therefore has no need of basic skills. Worse, I would fear my own temper on discovering a student is in a genuinely dangerous situation only to be told by a superior that I "shouldn't get involved."
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Old 03-02-2010, 01:18 AM   #8088
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Excuse me, but you've spelled your name wrong.




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...which, unlike 911, actually sounds logical.
Surprisingly, yes, I think so

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The 35 or so who still have jobs, anyway...you see, in our state teachers aren't getting paid anymore and/or getting laid off because said state is run by criminals. Get into Chicago and they're just happy when the kids don't show up with guns.

I seriously thought about being an English teacher, until I realized how much self-control it would take to refrain from belting half the parents who come into my classroom to tell me their lazy little doorstop of a child is the next Stephen Hawking and therefore has no need of basic skills. Worse, I would fear my own temper on discovering a student is in a genuinely dangerous situation only to be told by a superior that I "shouldn't get involved."
Yeah, frustrating situations must abound in teaching anywhere, but it sounds as though the US is gunning for the top spot in the Most Frustrating Place to Teach (Or Not) awards.
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Old 03-02-2010, 02:50 AM   #8089
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Yeah, frustrating situations must abound in teaching anywhere, but it sounds as though the US is gunning for the top spot in the Most Frustrating Place to Teach (Or Not) awards.
unfortunately our health and education systems both get awards for being the most fuggered up
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Old 03-02-2010, 03:07 AM   #8090
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*)%&$#@ hormones. (For the members that are female, that's probably all I really need to say...for the males, that's probably all they want to know...)
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Old 03-02-2010, 07:06 AM   #8091
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*)%&$#@ hormones. (For the members that are female, that's probably all I really need to say...for the males, that's probably all they want to know...)
Have some chocolate. And doughnuts. And scream at someone. They'll all help
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Old 03-02-2010, 07:43 AM   #8092
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I'll be 60 next month. I don't like gray no matter how you spell it!
Aries? I'll be 53 on the fourth...
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Old 03-02-2010, 07:45 AM   #8093
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Aries? I'll be 53 on the fourth...
Guess we're a sandwich then, I'm right in the middle.
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Old 03-02-2010, 08:04 AM   #8094
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I wish I had a nickle for every time I've seen "definitely" spelled "d-e-f-i-n-a-t-e-l-y"!

Def - i - NATE - ly?
You'll love this one...
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Old 03-02-2010, 08:06 AM   #8095
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Guess we're a sandwich then, I'm right in the middle.
Fourth of april I should have said.
When's your birthday? What... age if I dare?
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Old 03-02-2010, 09:35 AM   #8096
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Has someone here been ragging on your spelling? Whenever I see alternate spellings posted by folks who aren't of the same nationality as me, my first assumption is that it's a geographic variant.


That being said; USA! USA! USA!
The rest of y'all world citizens need to learn to spell proper—like we do!
Hell, I see speeling as a free-form exercise, myself.
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Old 03-02-2010, 09:56 AM   #8097
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In the USA if enough people misspell a word the powers to be add that misspelling to the dictionary.

So how do you know if someone is not really a bad speller but a pioneer of a new spelling?
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Old 03-02-2010, 10:03 AM   #8098
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So how do you know if someone is not really a bad speller but a pioneer of a new spelling?
Bad spelling doth never prosper: what’s the reason?
Why, if it prosper, none dare call it bad spelling.

— with apologies to Sir John Harrington (1561–1612)
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Old 03-02-2010, 10:08 AM   #8099
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Excuse me, but you've spelled your name wrong.





I used to love to look over someone's shoulder while they were typing and then go "Uh, you've spelled 'thuh' instead of 'thee'..." The mind translates it both ways, and some would panic while trying to figure out which ones were wrong.


Whew. I kill me. ("well, somebody should...")
kill you ? around here, that kind of thing will get you knighted.

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Hell, I see speeling as a free-form exercise, myself.
we've noticed. especially words with accents.

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Why, if it prosper, none dare call it bad spelling.

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Bad spelling can be lethal. For example, the greedy Seriph of Al-Yabi was cursed by a badly-educated deity and for some days everything he touched turned to Glod, which happened to be the name of a small dwarf from a mountain community hundreds of miles away who found himself magically dragged to the kingdom and relentlessly duplicated. Some two thousand Glods later the spell wore off. These days, the people of Al-Yabi are renowned for being remarkably short and bad-tempered.

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