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Percy
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Message 3 of 131 (459651)
03-09-2008 9:22 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by pelican
03-08-2008 6:37 PM


A few things.
First, in your example all the correct letters are still present, just in slightly jumbled order.
Second, search facilities, like the one at this board and Google, do not find misspellings.
Third, most people learn from experience that lower quality writing and spelling often accompany lower quality thinking.
Fourth, spelling is easy by using either Google Toolbar (has a spellcheck button) or Firefox (automatically checks the spelling inside a textbox). There's really no excuse.
--Percy

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Percy
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Message 14 of 131 (459766)
03-09-2008 6:44 PM
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03-09-2008 6:19 PM


pelican writes:
This is absurd. Thinking has nothing to do with literacy.
No one is saying that the ability to think is a function of one's degree of literary ability.
All that's being said, and putting this in "apples to apples" terms, is that given equivalent exposure to education, those who are best able to master the intricacies of writing and spelling are usually also best able to master the intricacies of many other things.
Thus it is only natural that there exist a tendency for the best writing to be accompanied by the best thinking.
There's really no excuse.
Isn't this just from your judgement?
Well, yes, of course it's my own opinion, but you only quoted part of what I said, which was that given the existence of spellcheckers from both Google and Firefox, there really is no excuse.
In my experience accurate spelling does not improve communication.
If you peruse the messages nominated in the [forum=-23] threads, I'm guessing you'll find extremely few regnant (look it up) with poor spelling. Let us know.
--Percy

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Percy
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Message 78 of 131 (460280)
03-13-2008 8:48 PM


In a review of the book The Survival of English by Ian Robinson, B. R. Myers in the April issue of The Atlantic writes:
B. R. Myers writes:
People who cannot distinguish between good and bad language are unlikely to think carefully about anything else.
--Percy

  
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