Re: OT can't spell

Posted by Michael Soldan on March 27, 2004 at 07:32:39 from (216.46.130.28):

In Reply to: OT can't spell posted by Nebraska Cowman on March 26, 2004 at 09:52:31:

Cowman, this has been an interesting discussion and I have enjoyed it. I taught for 31 years and I am capable of making a spelling error but mostly it is my inability to type properly, a skill that I never needed during my career. There is educational merit to what has been said and that is waiting to proof read. The human brain sees things in patterns and when you start to proof read your brain will pattern what you had intended to say..thereby causing you to miss an error for a second time. If you give yourself time your brain is less likely to pattern and going back 5 minutes later you are more likely to see the error. We are all likely to misspell words that are not familiar to us like sir names, names of companies, brand names and the like. Slang is another area in language use, but many experts feel that slang is the workhorse of a language , conveying a meaning that is readily understood in perhaps less words. I don't have a problem with people making errors and often typos are evident on their own...when I taught I graded a student on his creativity and the message he or she was conveying to me, spelling was secondary but it was also something that we worked on to try and improve....having said all that when someone is talking old tractors spelling isn't important..its like an accent..I still understand........thanks everyone for this discussion, I enjoyed it, now I got to go feed the stock and they don't care whether its hay, hey or heigh or whether its a bale or a bail......Mike in Exeter Ontario

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