Let pupils abandon spelling rules, says academic

HOORAAAAYYYYY!!!!!
Freedom, logic and decency for the children. Its about time !





David

Don't be stoopid, spelling matters

No, Walter; u have not thought it out fully.
Its only a matter of working it out.
Where there is a will there is a way.
First there must be a filosofical commitment, i.e.,
a policy decision to turn our attention to granting an efficient system
to future generations; the same principle as the metric system.
Emotionally, I dislike the metric system,
because I learned English measurements,
but I cannot deny that a system based on ten is better;
more efficient n more convenient.
The same applies to fonetic spelling.

The non-fonetic parts of the old system will fall of their own weight.
Inefficiency is non-viable.





David

I just posted some complaints on a lyrics site, about how almost none of them makes use of a word processor, none uses apostrophes in the right places, and many use 'there' and 'their' interchangeably. The only result: a rap writer wanted to argue and called me "almost a hater."

" The president of the Spelling Society says we should stop teaching
our children correct English spellings because
it is holding the little darlings back at school. "
It is false
to call the old accepted, non-fonetic way of spelling " correct ".
The old way of spelling is NOT correct.
Paradigmatic spelling is NOT correct insofar as it is non-fonetic,
because it offends logic, and it is by use of logic that we rose
to the top of the food chain.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1054092/Dont-stoopid-spelling-matters.html

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Oh, good morning David. Are you through yet?

Jeeez, I hope not, Ed.
These r supposed to be the Golden Years of my life.

Get fiber. Lots of it.

OK; I 'll call my tailor.

Which pronunciation of English would you choose? American English? British English? Australian English?

Why don't we just ditch school altogether? How about that?

Well, I can see staying home
and learning online, taking its tests, etc,
but u need to receive the necessary information somehow.

in 1962?

It's not that fucking hard. Pull your kids away from Hannah Fucking Montana and give them some books.

Hannah's doing what to Montana?!?!?!

What a filthy, filthy mind.

Yes, but funny.

This is a false dilemma for phonetic spelling because the great variance is itself partly due to the lack of a phonetic standard and because having regional spelling to go along with the regional pronunciations isn't a problem.

So I'd choose American English as it is closest to what I use. If I were British I'd surely feel otherwise and given that there are already arbitrary spelling differences I see no reason why there would be a problem with regional spelling being codified based on the most logical relationship between speech and writing: phonetics.

Because everyone who uses a phonetic language doesn't go to school.