Let pupils abandon spelling rules, says academic

@JTT,

David said:

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I believe that in time,
all English will be spoken like Tom Brokaw (or me)
because of electronic communications; we shall see.

To which JTT replied:

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Not a snowball's chance in hell, David.

And I hope JTT's right - I don't want to have to listen to all people talk like this ALL the time:

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Owed to a Spell Chequer

I halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plane lee marques four my revue
Miss steaks aye ken knot sea

Eye ran this poem threw it
Your sure reel glad two no
It's vary polished in it's weigh
My chequer tolled me sew

A chequer is a bless sing
It freeze yew lodes of thyme
It helps me awl stiles two reed
And aides mi when aye rime

To rite with care is quite a feet
Of witch won should be proud
And wee mussed dew the best wee can
Sew flaws are knot aloud

And now bee cause my spelling
is checked with such grate flare
Their are know faults with in my cite
Of nun eye am a wear

Each frays come posed up on my screen
Eye trussed to be a joule
The chequer poured o'er every word
To cheque sum spelling rule

That's why aye brake in two averse
My righting wants too pleas
Sow now ewe sea wye aye dew prays
Such soft wear for pea seas

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@aidan,

David said:

Quote:

I believe that in time,
all English will be spoken like Tom Brokaw (or me)
because of electronic communications; we shall see.

To which JTT replied:

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Not a snowball's chance in hell, David.

Ah -- an outcry echoing from the lower dungeons . . .

Aiden wrote:

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And I hope JTT's right -
I don't want to have to listen to all people talk like this ALL the time:

I have long suspected that it is metaphysically impossible
for JTT to be right about anything.

Thanks for the U tube; I was not watching that nite.

When will u be back in NY, Rebecca ?

David

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@OmSigDAVID,

OmSigDAVID wrote:

all English will be spoken like Tom Brokaw
David

tom brokaw spoke like he'd had his tongue removed and replaced with a tongue two sizes to big for his mouth

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@djjd62,

OmSigDAVID wrote:

all English will be spoken like Tom Brokaw
David

djjd62 wrote:

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tom brokaw spoke like he'd had his tongue removed
and replaced with a tongue two sizes to big for his mouth

and yet he prospered, flourished and throve in his career
almost as successfully as djjd62

Right ?

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possibly more so

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@OmSigDAVID,

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I have long suspected that it is metaphysically impossible
for JTT to be right about anything.

Well - at least he always spells Aidan right.
and YOU got this wrong:
Aiden wrote:

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And I hope JTT's right -
I don't want to have to listen to all people talk like this ALL the time:

because I, in fact wrote that - and on this forum I am known as Aidan (or Rebecca) - at least you can still spell that...

Anyway - yes- Dana Carvey doing Tom Brokaw always cracked me up - there was an even funnier one where he was pretending to be Tom doing a screen test for his job and he had to read the teleprompter which said something like: 'CH-arold F-hord (Gerald Ford) was attacked and mauled by lions today at his home in MiSH-higan...
(and he goes)....'I'm not reading that - that's not true is it....?' And they make him keep saying it over and over so everyone can laugh at the way he pronounces his consonant blends with such an exhalation of breath....

My kids and I used to walk around saying that to each other and laughing...

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@OmSigDAVID,

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and yet he prospered, flourished and throve in his career
almost as successfully as djjd62

That's hardly the point, David. The point relates to your suggestion that all English will be spoken like Brokaw. Things like this don't occur just because some confused, dottering old fool hopes it will be so.

If you thought about these things for longer than a fleeting moment, it would become apparent to you that these ideas of yours are born of ignorance.

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David wrote:

and yet he prospered, flourished and throve in his career
almost as successfully as djjd62

Right ?

No, David, not right.

I'm sometimes taken aback by your twisted logic, David.

Countable prosperity is not the only scale by which you can measure achievement and success of a career.

I know many valuable individuals that live on modest revenues, yet they are fully accomplished as human beings.

Concomitantly, I know famous entertainement people whose career I really don't envy..

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@OmSigDAVID,

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When will u be back in NY, Rebecca ?

David

I'm thinking about going in two weeks time to take my daughter to see her grandparents and pick up my son from the camp he's been working at all summer. Work is busy though - so it'll have to depend if I can get someone to cover for me. If not - it'll be Christmastime.

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@aidan,

Gimme a ring, if u wanna go to eat.

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@Francis,

Francis wrote:

David wrote:
and yet he prospered, flourished and throve in his career
almost as successfully as djjd62

Right ?

No, David, not right.

I'm sometimes taken aback by your twisted logic, David.

Countable prosperity is not the only scale by which you can measure achievement and success of a career.

I know many valuable individuals that live on modest revenues, yet they are fully accomplished as human beings.

Concomitantly, I know famous entertainement people whose career I really don't envy..

The twisting was in your mind,
not in my logic, Francis.

Your post silently assumed, in error, that I had denied
that there is more than one possible criterion of flourishing,
when in fact, I did not address that issue.

Is anyone that we know hallucinating?

David

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@aidan,

Aidan wrote:

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Well - at least he always spells Aidan right.
and YOU got this wrong:
Aiden wrote:

It was just a typo.
One of my fingers was inaccurate.
It was tired. It apologizes.

It offers to wave at u, over dinner, to make amends.

David

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@OmSigDAVID,

When I said twisted logic, you immediately came confirming my assertion..

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@Francis,

Francis wrote:

When I said twisted logic, you immediately came confirming my assertion..

If it makes u feel better: . . . dream on . . . .

`

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@OmSigDAVID,

I use my feelings with a discernment unknown to you, David.

And obviously, my dreams are of a different nature of those you attribute to me.

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@OmSigDAVID,

The twisting was in your mind,
not in my logic, Francis.

Your post silently assumed, in error, that I had denied
that there is more than one possible criterion of flourishing,
when in fact, I did not address that issue.

Is anyone that we know hallucinating?

=================

There are a number of words in this posting of yours, David, that could do with some changes using that magical ability you have for phonetisizing words.

It would also go some distance towards legitimizing your campaign to reform spelling if you had a wee bit of consistency in your "reforms".

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@Francis,

Francis wrote:

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I use my feelings with a discernment unknown to you, David.

Francis demonstrates his mindreading skills of renown.

Francis wrote:

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And obviously, my dreams are of a different nature of those you attribute to me.

Francis indisputably proves what is obvious to him.

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@OmSigDAVID,

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Francis demonstrates his mindreading skills of renown.

I just can't fathom how you could possibly be a mensa and a lawyer, David.

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David wrote:

Francis wrote:
I use my feelings with a discernment unknown to you, David.

Francis demonstrates his mindreading skills of renown.

How you possibly can connect these premises, is beyond the comprehension skills of a sane human being..

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